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Vichy Nerves. Conflicting reports from Vichy merged into a confused, half-focused picture of a "capital" in a state of nervous bewilderment, heavily infested by German troops and French mobile guards. Political cliques slid madly about, trying to make "arrangements" with Marshal Pétain, with Pierre Laval, with the Germans, with the Allies, with each other...
...Marshal Pétain, who had been keeping to himself since the Germans banned his radio proclamation of Vichy "democracy" (TIME, Nov. 29), broadcast a feeble plea for internal order last week. From a well-placed Vichy source came a circumstantial account of Pétain's latest mixup with the Nazis...
Vichy Parry. When Marshal Pétain attempted recently to promulgate his own eleventh-hour "democracy" (TIME, Nov. 29), he proved himself still to be a man to watch. His move was shrewd. Its purpose : to attract the many Frenchmen who still revere his name, the many who fear the wrath of Gaullist and guerrilla alike when liberation comes, the many who have something to lose in a postliberation purge...
Swiss newspapers reported that 100 ex-Senators and ex-Deputies had pledged Pétain full support, had followed their leader in denouncing Germanophile Pierre Laval. In passing, they took a vicious, inaccurate but perhaps effective cut at Charles de Gaulle-they said that he had "deserted the war declaration of 1939 and left France to suffer alone...
...tain's adherents could claim that they, and they alone, were the last-elected representatives of the French people. The old Marshal could claim that he had stayed with France in its blackest hour. However specious such claims may be, the Frenchmen of France will be the judges...