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...megalomaniac strain of all dictators. "In 1917," rumbled he, "I put an end to mutinies. In 1940 I put a period to our rout. Today it is from you yourselves that I want to save you." There was nothing unusual about the rules that Marshal Pétain announced-they came right out of the common totalitarian rule book...
...Marshal Pétain's speech also eloquently emphasized, by inference, what has long been suspected-that French totalitarianism is meeting much more open internal resistance than Hitler or Mussolini has ever had to face. Last week some of that resistance led to violence. The Marshal railed against Big Business opposition to Vichy, but a vastly more general discontent could be heard between his lines...
Actions. Prime question was whether Marshal Pétain's words portended quick French re-entry into World War II. Feeling was widespread that they might preamble an alliance with Germany against Russia, or the use of the French Fleet against British shipping, or joint action with Germany in French North Africa...
Last week Marshal Pétain raised his sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan to a new eminence-Minister of National Defense. Thereby Admiral Darlan apparently added to his Navy command that of Vichy's Army, whose largest. forces are in North Africa under General Maxime Weygand...
...worried about the formation of a volunteer French legion to fight Russia, headed by Eugène Deloncle, leader of the prewar, monarchist Cagoulards ("hooded men"-TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Such a force might be useful to the Nazis if they wished to foment an anti-Pétain revolution. Last week Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan forbade the legion to bear arms until it had crossed France's borders en route to Russia...