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...much as 25%. > Some 250,000 of the 1,800,000 French war prisoners in Germany would be sent home in time for late spring sowing, and more later. > The line of demarcation would be changed, giving Paris and four-fifths of France to Marshal Pétain, leaving Germany the coal and iron mines and industrial areas of the north, and the Channel invasion area. > The Nazis would be allowed to pass through France and into Spain for an attack on Gibraltar. > The Nazis would get control of the rest of the French Navy. > The Nazis would...
Wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann: "For the Americas the decisive phase of the war has begun with Marshal Pétain's announcement that France and the French colonial Empire are to be put, regardless of what the French people may think, at the disposal of Hitler. The French Empire . . . occupies positions of the greatest importance in the Caribbean . . . Atlantic . . Mediterranean . . . Red Sea . . . Indian Ocean . . Pacific...
During the Spanish Civil War the Marshal strongly favored the cause of his old war-college student and personal friend, Francisco Franco. During the Nazi Blitzkrieg on France, a Pétain Ministry was favored by the appeasement group in the French Cabinet. Recalled from his Ambassadorship in Madrid, the Marshal headed the Cabinet faction which opposed Winston Churchill's offer of a French-British union...
Recently, also, the French democratic tradition suffered perhaps its greatest purely symbolic defeat. Marshal Pétain kicked France's hallowed Bastille Day into discard, replaced it with a new national holiday for which he picked May Day. The former French labor festival also happens to be the Marshal's own Saint...
Stubbornly patriotic as Marshal Pétain may be, his patriotism has never emphasized or even reflected the French egalitarian spirit. Even as an officer in World War I he was a professed Royalist, often expressing dislike for liberalism and democratic institutions. In 1934 when the Fascist Croix de Feu attempted a coup d'etat, its demand was for the Hero of Verdun as head of Government. Again, in 1937 when the Cagoulards (Hooded Ones) were caught in what seemed a foolish revolutionary plot, their aim was to make Pétain dictator...