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...told the most about General Giraud is the General himself. A hitherto unpublished memorandum, which Giraud presented last spring to Marshal Henri Pétain, reveals the mind of a man who will need all the baraka in North Africa if he hopes to control the squirming ant heaps of political intrigue inside his present Government...
Since Nov. 12, 1942, some 140 American diplomats, newspapermen and relief workers formerly accredited to Marshal Pétain's Vichy Government have been interned at Lourdes, waiting for negotiations for their exchange to be completed. This week the State Department was advised that Germany had thrown a cordon of 55 troops around the group, was preparing to evacuate them all to Germany. Exchange negotiations were being taken over by the Reich "for its own purposes." Angrily the State Department protested this "autocratic action." Last message from the group, received two months ago, said they were bored, anxious, otherwise...
...tain and I." In his new state of conviction, Admiral Darlan, granting that he had once publicly espoused collaboration with Hitler, said: "When I made that statement I was using the word 'collaboration' in the sense that Marshal Pétain used it-namely, 'economic collaboration.' Owing to the German occupation of France, no other policy was open to us. For, if we had refused such collaboration, all the workers of France would have been put out of their jobs and left to starve. Pétain and I never favored anything but economic collaboration...
...Fighting French-who had not imposed conditions. The Admiral's condition apparently was that the French must fight under "recognized leadership"-meaning himself. Said he: "French soldiers never like to be considered dissidents. They will follow me because I am a man whom Marshal Pétain appointed to take his place. That is the only reason French West Africa came into the new entente under my authority...
Swart, pig-eyed Pierre Laval could have things his own way now in France. With dictatorial powers granted to him by old Marshal Pétain, with the Gestapo by his side in a country now fully under German occupation, he, free of the check-reins of government, felt he could thumb his bulbous nose at public opinion. These were main items on the well-filled Laval calendar...