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...Adolf Hitler's war plans and New Order in Europe. Time after time he had said he would fight anybody who tried to take French North Africa. Time after time Adolf Hitler had tried to have him removed. But on this point old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain had been firm-until the pressure became too great. Now General Weygand had been told that collaboration with Hitler would entail concessions in North Africa. Only one decision was possible for such a man as Maxime Weygand. Correspondent Archambault told what sort of man this...
...policy, and sealed it by accepting U.S. aid. He had pledged his loyalty to a chief who had now chosen another policy. General Weygand was, above all, a soldier whose first loyalty was to his chief-whether that chief was the indomitable Foch or the plastic Pétain. Maxime Weygand resigned...
Thus ended the last hope that the France of Henri Philippe Pétain and Jean François Darlan might be saved from Hitler's Europe. Scarcely had the Allier flowed another league than half a dozen collaborationist officials were on their way to North Africa to undo the work that Maxime Weygand had done. Marshal Pétain and Admiral Darlan packed to go to Paris-the Marshal for the first time since the armistice-to meet "a high German personage" and sign away the rest of their country's freedom of action. In Berlin seven...
...obtained the services of Henri de Man, with his influence over Leopold; and Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable men as Pétain and Weygand where they wanted them. Despite the pre-war Parisian wisecrack, "Did you know that our Foreign Minister is also in the pay of the French?," many reputable friends of Bonnet still cannot believe he was a traitor. Riess claims to know better, gives the reason why: Goebbels...
Charles Léon Clement Huntziger was a fine professional soldier from his cadet days at Saint-Cyr to his 1940 command of France's Second Army, when he made a bitter-end stand against the Nazis at the Meuse. Marshal Pétain picked him, as a properly brave, dignified warrior, to sign the armistice with Germany in Compiegne forest...