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From Vichy last week came news that Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was moving ever closer toward the "collaboration" that Adolf Hitler wants. The Marshal appointed a new Ministry in which the name of no enemy of collaboration appeared, a new five-man Cabinet top-heavy with portfolios for the man who has taken over the task of arranging collaboration, Admiral Jean François Darlan. The Admiral is now Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Navy, Minister of the Interior, and the Marshal's designated successor...
Probably because it could not do otherwise, perhaps on orders relayed from Berlin to Paris to Vichy, Marshal Pétain's Government bowed to the Japanese dictate in French Indo-China. At Gannat near Vichy a military court passed its first sentences on Army and Navy officers accused of helping "Free French" General Charles de Gaulle. Four of them were sentenced to ten to 20 years at hard labor for spreading De Gaulle propaganda in the armed forces...
While Dictator Francisco Franco palavered along the Mediterranean with Dictator Mussolini and Marshal Pétain (see p. 27) his onetime sovereign added another egg to the Spanish omelet. Dandified, talkative King Alfonso XIII, deathly ill with angina pectoris in Rome, announced that a month ago he had abdicated his vacant throne in favor of his son, 27-year-old Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias...
...Adolf Hitler to accept his own man as working chief of the Government, had retained supreme authority for himself. The French Fleet and Empire remained French. Foreign Minister Flandin resigned and Admiral Darlan became France's new strong man: Vice Premier, Foreign Minister, Navy Minister and Pétain's successor-designate. For the moment tension was eased. How long it would be before Adolf Hitler began pressing new demands, no one knew...
...farm tools, seeds and livestock, left permanent centres for "international good will" in Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Paris. Between wars they built schools in Mexico, helped Okies and jobless coal miners, ran hostels for refugees. Now they are busy once more in war-torn Europe. Last week Marshal Pétain received Quaker Howard Kershner at Vichy, expressed "profound gratitude" for the work Quakers have done in occupied France...