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Vichy's guess was the week's most interesting. It was based in part on Herr Hitler's reply to the Pétain plan of French-German collaboration (see p. 28). Hitler was said to have demanded that France turn over Mediterranean ports to the Axis -suggesting a major campaign in that theatre. The French thought that after their own position had been clarified, the invasion would be attempted, perhaps late in February. Vichy guessers put forward a specific plan the Nazis might use: unassailable walls of mines guarding two broad, trans-Channel lanes, into which...
...terms of Adolf Hitler's new demands had come at last. They were not made public but their general tenor was known. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain learned of them by telephone from his Ambassador to Paris, Count Fernand de Brinon. They were harsher than the old Marshal had expected. Not only did Hitler want the restitution of Pierre Laval to power to insure the "collaboration" he demands, not only did he want passage for German troops across Tunisia for an attack on the British in Libya (TIME, Feb. 3), but he also now wanted to occupy Mediterranean...
People who saw 84-year-old Marshal Pétain after he had heard this news reported that he was calm and serene. But France's Chief of State was going through the same mental and emotional experience that had broken such men as Austria's Kurt von Schuschnigg and Czecho-Slovakia's Eduard Benes. Like them he tried to make little concessions, apparently unwilling to believe that the only concession that ever satisfies Adolf Hitler is capitulation. The old Marshal forced the resignation from his Cabinet of Minister of Justice Raphaël Alibert...
...demand that German troops be allowed to cross Tunisia from Sicily for an attack on the British in Libya. This proposition was made to the Marshal by his ousted Vice Premier Pierre Laval when the two met at La Ferté a fortnight ago. Then Marshal Pétain was adamant on adhering to the Armistice terms, but since then gasoline stocked in Tunisia has been turned over to the Italians and there have been other signs that the Marshal might weaver...
...idea of a pan American ski comgene Du Bois '33 of New York City and "Cannto El Magnifice" Errazuriz, cap tain of this year's team when Du Bois was in South America in 1936 covering President Roosevelt's tour of Latin America...