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...Marshal Pétain, the Chief of State, yesterday met President Laval. They had a long conversation in the course of which the misunderstandings that had brought about the events of Dec. 13 were dispelled...
...Sent a message recalling the old motto of the First French Republic, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," to Henri Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France, in returning a New Year's greeting...
...Belgium the bread ration had been cut to eight ounces daily, meat to two ounces (including bone) a day. There was no butter, no lard, no coffee, little sugar. In France even Marshal Pétain had to dig out his out his ration card for the waiters, to have the coupons clipped for the grams he consumed-and an average meal meant less than four ounces of bread, three ounces of meat, half an ounce of fats-butter, lard or oil. Spain, ravaged long before the war, faced famine as the winter deepened. Typhus appeared in Warsaw. In unoccupied...
Vichy was snowbound. The worst blizzard in 50 years swept over the provisional capital of France, blocked the roads, tied up the railways. Snow fell on the Sévignè Pavilion, where Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, 84, awaited the coming of U. S. Ambassador William Daniel Leahy. It piled in high drifts in the nearby mountains of Auvergne; the U. S. charge d'affaires, driving to meet the new Ambassador, got only 20 miles from the capital. Still partially blacked out each night, cold, cheerless, waiting, Vichy lay paralyzed under the storm, a fitting symbol...
...count on effective aid from the U. S.? "Yes, surely . . . especially the children, sick and aged. What has been done until now is almost nothing ... in relation to what the United States is preparing to do." At noon the Admiral left to present his credentials to Marshal Pétain. This time there was a guard of honor, a company of French marines. The blizzard was over; the air was brightening. Simultaneously with the Ambassador's visit came a Washington announcement that the U. S. would make its agreed first food shipment to France (see p. 19). President Roosevelt...