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...Vichy collaboration came to a crisis. From the nearby listening post of Berne, Switzerland, it was reported that Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain would soon go to Paris to sign a document that already bore the signature of Adolf Hitler...
...belief that negotiations were nearing an end, that Hitler would get what he wanted. Government offices were transferring their officials to Paris. German Ambassador Otto Abetz arrived in Vichy, ostensibly to attend the funeral of General Charles Huntziger (see p. 31), but Ambassador Abetz dined with Marshal Pétain and the next day motored to Chateldon to see his old collaborator, Pierre Laval. On his return he lunched with the Marshal, then set out for Paris. Half an hour later a plane set General Maxime Weygand down at the Vichy airport...
...weekly parades at the Racecourse, their curio buying. It enjoyed Marine personalities like Colonel Richard Stewart Hooker, who could "roar like a sea lion, or coo like a dove." It enjoyed the Marines' practical joking, as when four leathernecks started a Communist scare by raising a red cur tain on the U.S. Embassy flagpole. The nervous International Settlement took special comfort in the Marines after Shanghai's British garrison left last year, after the Japanese got control of the Settlement's governing council last...
...hostages were shot. Then the Germans made a magnanimous gesture. They would delay for a few days the execution of the next hundred hostages. To explain this change of heart Vichy authorities is sued an official statement. "It is rumored in Vichy," the announcement said, "that Marshal Pétain wished to give himself up as a hostage in the occupied zone to prevent additional executions planned as a result of attacks at Nantes and Bordeaux. The Marshal's Cabinet has no declaration to make on the subject." The announcement of this "rumor" was all the protest Vichy dared...
...Service set Private Mary Churchill to scrubbing steps after Father Winston asked "no favors." Paris papers predicted that General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud would be moved to a fortress prison for trial at war's end. Marshal Pétain harvested his grapes at Villeneuve-Loubet on the Côte d'Azur. A Fight For Freedom audience of 17,000 cheered when Wendell L Willkie and William S. Knudsen denounced Naziism at Madison Square Garden, Eddie Cantor tripped over his hoopskirts, Swingstress Ella Logan swung Tipperary, Larry MacPhail...