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...Vichy last week grey old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and his North African commander General Maxime Weygand, a great little judge of horseflesh, drove up the river and out to the races. Perhaps this was intended to stifle persistent rumors of a rift between General Weygand and the Vichy Government, for otherwise it did not seem like the week for Vichymen to go frivoling. Adolf Hitler was bearing down harder than ever for outright Nazi-Vichy military collaboration in North Africa...
...Gaulle wrote in 1934. The Maginot Line is limited in depth and 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...
Salient titles: René de Chambrun's De La Lorraine à Washington; Laval, by Henri Torres, a French liberal lawyer who knew the No. 1 French Quisling intimately...
...spit & polish. Inside, in the reception room, besides the conquering Allied generals waited 20-odd foreign consuls; native political leaders; sheiks in wimples; religious dignitaries from the country's many Moslem and Christian sects. They waited in vain for Admiral Pierre Victor Gabriel Gouton (acting for General Henri Fernand Dentz, Vichy's High Commissioner) to come out and say goodby...
...France's foremost prehistorian, the Abbé Henri Breuil, soon inspected the pictures, pronounced them genuine and highly important. Early this year he managed to relay news of the discovery to the learned British journal, Nature. Archeologists and anthropologists world-over opened their eyes in amazement, then frowned wearily at the difficulty of getting adequate photographs through the confusion and censorship of Vichy. Last week TIME succeeded in bringing them out. The most interesting of them appear herewith...