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Perhaps the President changed signals after his conference with Churchill. Perhaps something persuaded the State Department that Marshal Pétain's radio plea for closer Franco-Nazi cooperation (TIME, Aug. 25) might be just another effort to appease Hitler with promises instead of warships and bases. There was a bigger, simpler reason: the French seemed to be turning ever more violently against Darlan's Nazi-philes. Such a time was no time for the U.S. to seize a French island...
Balding, brooding little Gaston Henry-Haye, Vichyfrench Ambassador to Washington, dropped in at the State Department last week-ostensibly to register a complaint with Secretary Cordell Hull about the way the free press of the U.S. treats his country's leaders; actually to stress again that Pétain's collaboration was not quite material cooperation...
...took with him a portfolio of cartoons making fun of Pétain and Darlan as Nazi satellites (see cut). It was a shame, said Henry-Haye, "that a man with the Marshal's record should be subjected to this ridicule." Vichy's Ambassador does not send such cartoons home to France. He knows that most Frenchmen look on the U.S. as the savior of democracy, says he is afraid it would break their spirit if they learned how the U.S. feels about Vichy...
...Deal? In the last few months, as Marshal Pétain has edged steadily closer to the Axis, Gaston Henry-Haye has taken the place once occupied by Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky among the diplomatic outcasts of Washington. Oumansky, though diplomatically shunned for two years, was nevertheless personally popular, bore up well. Henry-Haye, natu rally affable, is desolately lonely-next to Germany's handsome Chargé d'Affaires, Dr. Hans Thomsen, is probably the loneliest man in boom-packed Washington...
...been given a raw deal by Britain and the U.S., that France was deserted by her Allies, stripped of all but the last shreds of her independence after a crushing defeat. Real tears slide down the little Ambassador's cheeks when he speaks of Marshal Pétain...