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Outspokenly anti-Vichy, anti-Axis Charles Brunei, intimate friend of Fighting French General Georges Catroux, was appointed head of Peyrouton's important Council of War Economy. A former mayor of Algiers, Brunei escaped arrest during a De Gaullist roundup last December only by virtue of his prestige. His son Jacques was in jail until last month. Out as propaganda secretary went pro-Axis Jean Rigaud, to be replaced by distinguished General Rene Michel Jules Joseph Chambe, a soldier and writer untainted by Axis collaboration...
...Sometimes the soldiers slapped the Dutchmen in the face and stamped on their feet. The Kempei, Japanese version of the Gestapo, took over the police department, rounded up most of the white male population and hustled them off to camps. (Some of the prisoners were later released, but another roundup put most of them back in again. ) For eight days after the fall of Java a Bandung radio station played the Dutch national anthem at the end of every evening's broadcast. "The fellows got shot." The people listened to news broadcasts until the Japs sealed their radios...
...Justice Department's Anti-Trust division, the irreverent, irrepressible Assistant Attorney General had long since reached a dead end. First capital, then labor had been irritated by his monolithic determination to enforce the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust laws. Two years ago Arnold's brisk roundup of labor unions for trade-restraining practices was brought to an abrupt halt. The Supreme Court virtually forbade anti-trust prosecution of organized labor...
Edouard Herriot, three times Premier of France, was the last to speak for freedom as death came to Vichyfrance. Last week in a new roundup of former French leaders, the Nazis arrested eloquent, able Statesman Herriot. Their handcuffs gave bitter meaning to his pledge (TIME, Dec. 7): "I shall stay and suffer with my people...
...bayonets of their captors, being transported through the streets on their way to imprisonment. The Gestapo, which followed the troops in, had long lists of suspects. First to be arrested were all those who had survived the destruction in the harbor; later many civilians were taken in the Gestapo roundup...