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...France's ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Socialist leader of the 1936 Popular Front. Edouard Daladier, the only surviving man of Munich, and Paul Reynaud, the last unhappy Premier who yielded France to Marshal Pétain...
Paul Reynaud, dapper last pre-Pétain Premier of France, also wrote from internment in Germany. He said that he was in good health, requested nothing...
...question of time until all the $17,000,000 worth of Hohenzollern land in Germany would pass out of the family-perhaps, too, the rocky eyrie at Sigmaringen, from which the Hohenzollerns originally came, and which the Nazis, with creditable irony, had assigned to Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and other Vichyites as the seat of their "Government in Exile...
...been Marshal Pétain's counselor and Vichy's foremost apologist. On his lapel he still wore Marshal Pétain's badge. "I do not fear facing a firing squad," he cried. "If I had to do it again, I would." He retracted nothing, not even his 1941 words-"De Gaulle is a traitor who commands the scum of the world." He thumped the ledge of the prisoners' dock, proclaimed himself a "patriot," read a seven-hour political harangue against every act of the Third Republic. The court listened wearily...
...this week it was apparent that the supply situation had been redressed. Probably it did not yet have the bountiful perfection to which U.S. soldiers have be come accustomed. But one thing was cer tain: General Hodges would not be moving as he was unless he could move with certainty. Above all other things Courtney Hodges was a believer in making sure before he went ahead...