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...Vichy have had a gutteral German hardness about them. Last week for the first time came words so un-French, so very German in accent that the outside world found it hard to believe they came from the mouth of an old fighter for France, Henri Philippe Pétain...
Premier Pétain announced laws against French Jews. The laws defined a Jew as a man with three Jewish grandparents or two Jewish grandparents and a Jewish wife. They barred most such men from all but minor public jobs, requiring incumbent Jewish officeholders to resign within two months; from positions in the Army, Navy, Air Force; from jobs as teachers; from positions in press, radio, cinema. Vichy was very proud that these decrees were milder than Germany's-that Jews may retain civil rights as citizens. Some professions were not purged...
...After the Armistice, the French Government, headed by Marshal Henri Pétain, moved: 1. To Geneva. 2. To Lyons. 3. To Biarritz. 4. Back to Paris. 5. To Vichy...
...which Frenchmen once fought a bloody revolution, would be discarded for a "social hierarchy" under which rich & poor, high & low, would have equal opportunities to prove their worth by serving the totalitarian State. The only "right" accorded impartially to all Frenchmen would be to work. Liberty, Pétain told his countrymen, had not existed in France for 20 years. "Besides, what would abstract liberty be worth in 1940 to an unemployed workman or the proprietor of a small ruined business beyond freedom to suffer without redress in the midst of a vanquished nation...
...tain told his own country. He made only suggestions to the nation which will, unless defeated, give France its actual Order when it gets around to it. "Doubtless Germany . . . can choose between the traditional peace of suppression and a wholly new peace of collaboration. Germany may prefer the new method to the misery, strife, repressions and conflicts of peace in the old manner. . . . First choice of course rests with the victor. . . .If all roads are closed to us, we shall know how to suffer and wait." Thus France knelt to her conqueror...