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Last week Pierre Laval, slickest collaborationist of them all, talked again with Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain in Randan forest, where they met last fortnight (TIME, April 6). There were the same rumors that Laval brought Adolf Hitler's demands and threats, insisted that the Riom trials be stopped.* Diplomatic circles also heard that Laval appealed to Pétain's friendship by telling him, truly or falsely, that an arch-collaborationist coup d'état was being planned in Paris. Afterward Laval reminded the press that it was he who had instigated French collaboration with...
...aged Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, a Hitler tantrum was scarcely less embarrassing than the trial. No one seemed to know just why the trial was allowed to continue. But it did. Three generals testified that lack of French aviation was "stupefying"; that the "Sitzkrieg" had been "a period of stagnation"; that the press had undermined morale; that lack of liaison between air and army forces led to tragic blunders...
...only one during the week which indicated that France had been in any way prepared for war. Onetime Premier Edouard Daladier countered with a quotation from a preface to a book, published in 1939, entitled Is an Invasion Still Possible? The preface was written by Marshal Pétain...
...when they [Army officials] ordered altogether seven tanks at the time when Germany was turning them out by mass production." He admitted mistakes, delays and errors common to all democracies, but in a fury charged once again that reactionary militarists, typified by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain himself, were responsible for the defeat of France's Armies...
Eighth. Club: France. Nickname: Parisians. Manager: Pétain. Comment: farm club for Germany; weak most every position. Predictions: looks hopeless; cinch for eighth. Odds...