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Again under the German heel, the French Government was ready last week to scrap the Constitution. Premier Henri Philippe Pétain empowered Vice Premier Pierre Laval to draw up a "new kind of constitution" giving France an "ultramodern version of democracy." The Constitution of ultramodern democracy would, it was declared, junk the old ideals of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" for the near-Fascist principles of "Labor, Family and Country...
Presently, in Casablanca, arrived the man whom great Lyautey designated in 1916 to succeed him as Governor of Morocco: General Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud. the white-whiskered "Lion of Champagne." who, wounded at Gallipoli, had his right arm amputated instead of nursed along, so that he could get back into action a month sooner. Whatever General Gouraud said to General Noguès, it had instant effect. Presently the latter, and also Governor General Georges Le Beau of Algeria, saluted the Pétain Government and announced "an end to hostilities" in North Africa...
Crowded aboard a little Indian tramp ship built to carry 180, nearly 1,500 refugees from Bordeaux landed safely in England, among them the Baron & Baroness Robert de Rothschild and French Dramatist Henry Bernstein, fleeing Nazi anti-Semitic terrors. Fear of Gestapo black lists brought aboard the same vessel two onetime Government officials: onetime Belgian Transport Minister Marcel-Henri Jaspar and onetime French Air Minister...
France fell, and as all men do in times of great disaster or triumph, each nation thought of its own. France's white-haired Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Jo seph Pétain thought of "those who have been fighting, true to their old military tradition, against an enemy of huge numerical superiority; ... of those old combatants whom I commanded during the last war; ... of the men and women on the roads, driven away from their homes." Amid thunder's boom and the crackle of lightning that made radios rasp, Frenchmen heard him ask for peace...
...Henri Giraud...