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...American Ambassador William C. Bullitt, Minister Baudouin conveyed Marshal Pétain's "extreme indignation," but assured him for what it was worth: "There is nothing that can break the friendship of France toward the United States." To foreign pressmen M. Baudouin continued: "Yesterday's French dead at Oran have rendered us the service of liberating us from England's domination, allowing us to be politically free to follow a purely French policy." France, he added, was determined, with the consent of Germany and Italy, to defend herself by sea and air against any further attacks. French...
...ties of comradeship and excessive fidelity are completely broken now," declared Foreign Minister Baudouin of the Pétain Government in denouncing Britain's "treachery." At Vichy, the provisional French capital, diplomatic relations with the old ally were formally severed...
...tain Government followed up its severance of relations by heaping Gallic recrimination upon the head of its late Entente partner. His voice knife-sharp with bitterness, the Foreign Minister charged: England had provided only slight military aid to France, thinking selfishly solely of the defense of the British Isles, and must therefore shoulder the blame for "the loss of the war"; France had mobilized 3,000,000 men, England only 200,000; the great strategic error of the campaign occurred when at England's insistence the French Army left its trenches to rush into the Lowlands to the fatal...
Again under the German heel, the French Government was ready last week to scrap the Constitution. Premier Henri Philippe Pétain empowered Vice Premier Pierre Laval to draw up a "new kind of constitution" giving France an "ultramodern version of democracy." The Constitution of ultramodern democracy would, it was declared, junk the old ideals of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" for the near-Fascist principles of "Labor, Family and Country...
...Constitution sought to prevent-invest supreme authority in a single dictator. It would probably abolish both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, substituting for them a single assembly of powerful yes-men. Dispatches from Vichy forecast the establishment of a "corporative" state in which, under Marshal Pétain as titular Chief of State, Vice Premier Laval, General Weygand and Minister of the Interior Marquet would form a power-wielding triumvirate. A regime similar to that of Generalissimo Franco, with whom 84-year-old Marshal Pétain was "tremendously impressed," was generally predicted. While Berlin applauded approvingly, French Cabinet...