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...week's end, with Laval's return from Paris, Vichy began, if not to explain, at least to adumbrate. The negotiations had been, not for peace, but for armistice extension. Ultimate settlement is far off, Laval stated, probably not till the end of Germany's military operations; but short-range "precise questions . . . will be answered shortly." "Diplomatic spokesmen" opened up a little. Correspondents scaled down their predictions to soberer internal realities, began to guess more cautiously. From their guesses emerged roughly the following picture...
Before every entrance of the old and respected Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury--American-owned and just across the street from the International Settlement--stand armored cars, pill-boxes, barbed wire barricades, and guards with drawn guns...
...beginning the English did not think the Germans would put up a fight. They discussed what the settlement was going to be and there was much talk about a federal union of Europe," Cline explained. But these ideas proved to be only "the pious hope of the time...
...toward famine, and sick to death of itself, Petain expounded totalitarian economic theory in the form of three basic principles: 1) organization of professions on a corporative basis within which elements of enterprise can thrash out their difficulties; 2) arbitration by the State of all disputes otherwise incapable of settlement; 3) State control of corporations to adjust national production in accordance with domestic markets and the possibilities of foreign trade...
Having conquered all France and occupied three-fifths of it, the Germans for the past two months have been in no hurry to indicate the nature of the final settlement they will impose on the biggest nation they have whipped to date. While they dictated new boundaries for the Balkans and slowly turned more & more heat on Great Britain, the Wiesbaden deliberations were deliberately prolonged and France was left to wait her fate. France had to wait, but by last week it had become plain that France's colonies did not. The colonial parade to the defiant standard...