Word: weygand
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...Allen was arrested March 13 while snooping in Occupied France. He was sentenced to four months instead of the customary two weeks to a month, and put in an ancient military prison at Chalon-sur-Saone. Though in Vichy he had been given special facilities, talked with Weygand and Pétain, circulated freely as far as North Africa, the Vichy Government, to show the Nazis he was no friend of theirs, now also put out a warrant for his arrest, on grounds of stealing documents "affecting the security of the French State." (They were really photostat copies of police...
...hesitated with reasons. One reason was the value of a diplomatic listening post in France. Another was the chance that the Germans might overplay their hand, arouse Vichy to partial resistance. The best reason was the small bet the U.S. has placed on General Maxime Weygand to resist any Axis attack on Vichyfrench Africa. General Weygand hates the guts of General de Gaulle...
...from Libya and possibly the Middle East and Turkey toward Egypt and Suez; 2) from Libya down through French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola (by transport plane) toward British South Africa; 3) from Spain and Spanish Morocco across Weygand's Morocco and West Africa (by persuasion or force) toward Dakar. The road to Dakar has already been improved and Dakar is the strongest fortress on the Atlantic coast of Africa...
...leaves northern France exposed, he warned. The defensive psychology of the Maginot Line "will defeat France." As to the vaunted French morale, "neither bravery nor skill can any longer achieve anything except as functions of equipment." Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain laughed off the book as "witticisms." General Weygand called it "evil." The Germans learned from...
...Abbeville (and it was there that his men first called him Le Général). After that Premier Paul Reynaud made him Under Secretary of State for Defense. General de Gaulle helped to persuade Premier Reynaud to continue the war-against the arguments for armistice of Weygand, Pétain and others-and he flew to London to tell Winston Churchill that France would see it through. Weygand refused to shake hands with him when he returned. When Reynaud lost heart and resigned in favor of Pétain, De Gaulle flew to London for keeps. There...