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...still others, a ratlike scurry across the Mediterranean to the side of Admiral Jean François Darlan, Marshal Pétain's retired colleague General Maxime Weygand refused to reassume his African command and was promptly seized by the Nazis as a hostage for brave old General Henri Honoré Giraud who had got across the Mediterranean to join the Allies...
Victim. The Pétain regime allowed French industry, wealth and manpower to be siphoned into the Third Reich. History will decide whether Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain aided Hitler deliberately or not. Last week the question, like his regime, seemed unimportant...
...loyalties of Frenchmen who want to see their country freed were last week sadly tied in knots. Admiral Jean François Darlan, ex-Vichyite, was in the saddle in North Africa, with full, if only temporary, U.S. approval. General Henri Honoré Giraud, known hater of the Germans, was his subordinate commander. General Charles de Gaulle, the man who refused to admit the French surrender at Compiègne and founded the only recognized organization of free Frenchmen, was somewhere out in the cold, with no voice whatever in the proceedings hailed as the first step toward France...
...Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, cautious but lifelong royalist sympathizer, remained in Vichy as monarchism's chief hedge against Axis victory...
There were two men who knew more about this than anyone else. One was the French Pretender himself. Slender, sharp-nosed, soft-chinned Henri de Bourbon-Orléans, Comte de Paris, 34, was last week, as French law requires of pretenders, in exile. This descendant of the effulgent Bourbon kings through Louis Philippe d'Orléans was biding his time in a sprawling white villa in the quiet little Spanish Moroccan port of Larache, only 600 miles from the headquarters of U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower...