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...event, if Edouard Herriot were really heading a subversive rump parliament last week, he could scarcely have felt easy about his own future. Vichy was getting fascistically tougher than ever. It was the first anniversary of Marshal Pétain's French Legion-veterans of two wars who support the Marshal. For three days there was Nazi-style mummery. By foot and airplane some 20,000 Legionnaires carried torches, lit from the eternal flame at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Paris, to many parts of Vichyfrance and the Empire. Finally, in Vichy's stadium Marshal...
...elected representatives of the French people from many different parts of France. Although Vichy has abolished Parliament in fact, it has always been skittish about getting rid of the appearance. Parliament's pay was stopped by Vichy's order on Sept. 1, but Marshal Pétain's own acts provide that Parliament shall remain "in existence" until a new Constitution provides for new assemblies. Moreover, the present French Constitution states that the French Parliament shall meet in the capital, and last week this pretense was kept up-Parliament's sign remained on its erstwhile Vichy...
Henry-Haye condemns the Free French who follow General Charles de Gaulle as a band of deserters and adventurers; but most of all, like Marshal Pétain, he believes France was betrayed by the British. Against George VI and on behalf of France he quotes passionately the charges in the U.S. Declaration of Independence hurled against George III: "He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People. . . . He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst...
Last week Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain continued to work his triple miracle by means not so much miraculous as tyrannical. Faced with increasing sabotage by Frenchmen who don't believe in the Pétain miracles, he set up special courts ordered to hear cases within ten days of arrests, to carry out death sentences pronto, without appeal...
Last week, also, Marshal Pétain showed himself an increasing master of dictatorial double talk. Addressing his Council of State, from whom he demanded an oath of allegiance, he pronounced such ripe ambiguities as: "Since the day when, by the irresistible force of circumstances more than by will, and above all, my own, I was placed at the head of the State, I have multiplied appeals to common sense, to reason and to the notion of public interest...