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...other extreme rightists were arrested, among them Major Georges Loustaneau-Lacau, a former Pétain aide who turned up at Pétain's treason trial to defend the Marshal-even though Pétain had not lifted a finger when the Nazis put Loustaneau-Lacau in a concentration camp. Another of the arrested plotters was General Maurice Guillaudot, who was about to go to a banquet when police came for him. Said he: "I understand what is involved. Just let me go to my banquet." The French police, who pride themselves on being raisonnable...
...Willing Men. The point missed by most critics, says Langer, is that Vichy was not simply Pétain, Darlan and Laval. They got the headlines, but "at all times [were] more than counterbalanced" by other Vichyites, mostly nameless, who were loyal Frenchmen at the least, and at most, zealously pro-Ally. Example: as early as spring 1941 the Deuxième Bureau (intelligence service) secretly agreed to send military reports to the U.S. Army in Washington, right under Vichy Ambassador Henry-Haye's nose. According to U.S. diplomats at Vichy, French officialdom was 85% on the Allied side...
...thickheadedness, had made it not only possible but also profitable for the U.S. to work with Vichy, says Langer. Wooing the French, they had left a large part of France "unoccupied," left the French fleet and French colonies in French hands. Even such a timorous lot as Pétain & Co. could sometimes get surprising results by a little show of nerve...
...Last of the Hardys. As "L'Affaire 'Ardy" wore on, public sympathy swung heavily to Hardy's side. Paris' stuffy Court of Assizes (where Pétain and Laval had been tried) was crammed with veterans of the Resistance-and with their memories. Said one René Hardouin, owner of a coffee stall at a Paris railway station, who had sabotaged railroads under Hardy: "I don't know whether he denounced anyone. When they torture you, you give away anything, after a time. But Hardy is a hero, anyway." At the end of the trial...
...Harvard RUTGERS Couison (185) le Garrabrant (195) Dewey (200) lt Thropp (213) Rodis (210 lg Train (190) J. Fisher (185) c Tain (190) Drvaric (195 rg DiLiberti (185) Davis (210) rt Lyman (190) Fioretino (180) re Sowick (190) Goethais (180) qb Burns (180) G. O'Donnell (155) lh Hering (185) Gannon (185) rh Winklereld (176) Moravec (200) rb MoManus...