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...word declaration by Premier Henri Philippe Pétain, Free France got its New Order last week. The 84-year-old Marshal announced that, departing from the "universal bankruptcy of economic liberalism," France would seek a "harmonious combination of authority and liberty." The New Order would ban strikes and lockouts, break power trusts, regulate prices, control foreign commerce and exchange, abolish the gold standard, break away from traditional friendships and enmities, drop the Entente Cordiale with Great Britain, reinstate "true nationalism," base all French foreign relations upon collaboration with Germany...
...week's end French resistance fizzled out, on orders from Vichy. In that town of pathetic, hollow words Foreign Minister Baudouin reported to Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain that all fighting had ceased. "Hence," continued the Foreign Minister, who once made a fortune out of Indo-China, "the French-Japanese accord now goes into effect in the friendly, trustful spirit which prevailed at its establishment...
When the procession started, the President's closed car, moving slowly, was followed by a ripple of applause-only a ripple: the crowd had come to a funeral. " 'Tain't no time for cheering," said one. Heads nodded...
Disruptions. Death, though the worst, was not the only civilian hazard. When the poor lost their homes, they lost every thing. When factories were bombed they lost next to everything - their jobs. Cer tain occupations, such as dancing in cho ruses and picking up men on street corners, were completely bombed out. Pub owners lost most of their business. Luxury shops did no selling. Crime, or at least its detection, took a holiday: for the first time in the memory of living men the Bow Street Police Court booked no charges for a whole...
...attempting to cooperate with Great Britain's Duff Cooper and Lord Gort in Morocco in the hope of carrying on a pro-Ally Government after France had officially signed her armistice. The others face possible life imprisonment, with the present Premier, aging Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, holding power of pardon...