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...Frenchmen. On one side will be General Charles de Gaulle and his Algiers Liberation Committee, armed with extensive blueprints for a mid-invasion and postwar French Government. On the other side: none other than that veteran of defeat and collaboration, 87-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. In Vichy's twilight, the tarnished star of Pétain is rising...
...rumors began on Nov. 13 when Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, Vichy Chief of State, failed to make a scheduled broadcast. That caused a spate of reports, some buttressed by "informed circles" in France, all adding up to the suggestion that Marshal Pétain was fed up with Nazi Puppet Pierre Laval, and anxious to set himself aright with anti-Nazi Frenchmen and the Allies. Finally, a Geneva newspaper published the text of the speech Pétain never made-a document purporting to promulgate a return to democratic government. At week's end, an aurora borealis...
...idea was to replace Laval by a gang of former politicians who would [privately] assure the Germans of their complete loyalty . . . appease public opinion . . . [and] provide a smoother transition should there be a successful U.S. landing. . . . Thus Pétain would no longer be regarded as the man who had wrecked the Republic; he would just have kept it in the twilight because of circumstances until he himself was ready of his own free will to restore democratic institutions...
...personal adviser is also his croquet partner, James Clement Dunn. Dapper, slick-haired, 53-year-old "Jimmy" Dunn married into the Armour packing family, gives lavish receptions, likes European nobility, wears the right clothes. In the past he supported the Franco regime, backed Marshal Henri Pétain helped Vichyite Marcel Peyrouton. On his record, he has been anti-Soviet...
...Vatican's haste to embrace Marshal Pétain and Vichy...