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OF FRANCE UNDER NAZIS
(By Kenneth Down, I.N.S. Correspondent)
I HAVE JUST COME FROM FRANCE, WHERE I SPENT FIVE WEEKS. DURING THOSE FIVE WEEKS I KEPT ON THE MOVE. I TRAVELLED THROUGH UNOCCUPIED FRANCE FROM THE HUNGRY PYRENEES REGION TO THE UNREAL CAPITAL OF VICHY.
I visited the dead but vastly overcrowded cities of Marseilles and Lyons and the despondent areas of the once rich Riviera. And because I could make no sense of the anomalies and contraditions of un- occupied France, I took the "underground rail- way through barbed wire entanglements and Ger- man patrols into the forbidden area of occupied France, spending five days in a Paris I no longer knew.
The whole expeteres hack ch adresimike pality of meality. that ** is difficult nowy to set down lessly the things Bay and learn- and The tragic change in France and the French o so quent that it must be seen to be realisert.
1 winage it. arcording to cheri epauttam tu both Vichy and 1 1
as much Germany). Pan as M Laval is, but is even more dangerous because of bos direct command of the Fleet and because he enjoys a better post- trom m the option of the French public than the hated Laval Theck
public sull thinks of Ad Darlan as a career navy man nol as a You have the escapable im- silently ambitionis politician It is
not yet aware of his game.
Round the first of the
Pessimism Pervades
Land
DEPOT from the
omment you Enter the country, that France is
year
Although official sources deny this learned from an abso lutely reliable authority that
through for a long time as a first-Darlan had a secret meeting with
Hitler in The north of Franc vate power. Apathy and pessim- isin pervade the land. The people detalls of which have never been are beaten, they admit il.
published. They seem a pemple grown oid and weary, no longer possessing that Vitality articl sense of national pride necessary tu majitaining an empire
place in the A first world, but Father only a desire to rebre to the comforts of old
aug.
VOU
Bul the appalling fact that dawns on
gradually mally hits you right between the eyes is that France and Amerien, though non-belligerent, are work- ing an opposite sides in a war for the first time
the French Indian wars and
the early eighteenth century.
а
The
SPIDERS IN
HIS BED, HE SAYS
Frederick B. Cody, steam shovel operator, seeking divorce in Los Angeles, said his wife
put poisonous spiders in his bed and once tried to run over him with her car, cables a New York correspon- dent.
Mrs Cody said her husband beat her and associated with other
women.
STOLE A FACTORY
A glass
factory once
Hitler at that time gave Darian worth a million dollars
written memorandum.
has been stolen, walls and memorandum was purported to have said, in effect:
all, from Torrence, Cali-
Out
"We have not the slightest infornia. ferest in the internal polities of
are and France, we
at the moment | It's the biggest theit in Cali- more m- formas be tory. Police blush as concerned with nich
But, we are in-citizens stom them and mure portant things. terested in the role France wili jeeringly Seen
a Factory any- have to play in the new order at where the conclusion of the war. And we i The factory was closed by its shall be watching with interest owners several months ago In- how she, in the meantime, teeds side they felt valuable machinery. her population, manages her fleet and materials France to-day. against the and her colonies, and keeps her
One morning forries with will of 95 per cent. of her popu- sea lines open. Upon the way in
complicated housebreaking lation, is the ally of Germany in which the discharges these res-
equipment arrived. every practical sense short of ponsibilities of a Sovereign State, Jumped workmen. the military. In other words, will be judged her position and economically and industrially. rights after the war." This talk about collaboration or non-collaboration in Vichy is "eye-wash" Collaboration is n fact, and has been for months. About 90 per cent. of French in- dustry is working DI German order. There is no choice. It is work for German orders or shut down because of inability to ob- lain raw materials, or because of strangling German restrictions, The bulk of French industry is located in the occupied two-thirds
of the country.
Denunciations Of Britain
The
The implication was clear. admiral came back to Vichy "full of beans and spinach." He Ye- doubled his denunciations of the British for whom he makes no effort to conceal his enmity. He began talking openly for the first time of sailing against the British unless they ceased haiting French ships.
When they had removed the materials and every plece of machinery they knocked down the walls and carried away the bricks. County officials made the dis- covery that the factory "wrongfully missing."
DIED ON CHURCH STEPS
was
While walking up the steps of Upper Holloway (London) Bap- List Church to attend a service, a Woman, aged about sixty, collaps-
The
woman has nut been identified.
Admiral's tails at this time with the announcement that food ships would be sent
from America, provided there was American control of distribu- tion.
Opposing Belligerents Moreover, there is danger that collaboration will be carried to even greater lengths, One of the keenest men I know in France, who for obvious reasons cannot be men became concerned and Darlan named, toki me: "I think that be had to send a message of reassur- fore this war is ended, it is en-
ance to officers of the fleet at tirely possible that France and Toulon that they would not be America may be belligerents on called on to sail against the Bri- opposing sides."
His statements grew preposter-ed and died. ous. He began saying, for exam- ple, that the British Fleet was no good anyway and that he would of it with his probably dispose
French naval own. Responsible
tish.
Comedy Of Sham Independence
It was
as it is,
sad experience to see But Vichy was It is a political
Whilst 95 per cent. of the popu-
But on February 27, in the Tation is anti-German and hope Hotel Thermal at Vichy, the lor a British victory, they are irrepressible Darlan in a speech | Paris passive. With a very few rare before the French
worse. Legion again even exceptions, they have no fight left|threatened to sail against the madhouse in which the dreary in them and couldn't do anything British if they stopped any more comedy of sham independence is even if they had. The other pro- French ships. (Most of the cargo played daily. Old Marshal Petain German 5 per cent. have all the of these ships, including such stands alone there, the one dis- power of Germah propaganda and foods as citrus fruits, is for Ger- interested and patriotic figure, in German arms behind them. They man consumption). He added he " maelstrom of selfishness, are aggressive, ambitious men thought the British were doomed cynicism and advantage-seeking, who have wagered not only their to defeat. careers, but their very lives on German victory. They are des perate and will stop at nothing to see England defeated.
which is as bad or worse than it ever was under the republic.
There is much hardship and deprivation in France, but/real- ly serious sufföring, on a wide- spread scale, is not expected until next writer. There will Be a grave "food shortage then. If food is permitted to pass the blockade, Germany undoubtedly, will be helped, for the Germans are steadily seizing a portion of the imports that cofne into Mar-
1
A week later he went to Paris where he conferred with M. Laval, M. Abetz, and General Keitel. Upon his return to Vichy M. Pierre Laval, for example, he announced the French Fleet knows and admits to friends, would "convoy Its merchant ships that his life is forfølt unless the if any more were halted by the German victory is complete. British blockade. This was -ani Most dangerous mian at the extremely clever move, For while moment, however, is Admiral it is extremely unlikely that, Ad. Jean Francois Darlan, who as Darlan could hand over the fleet Vice-Premier nominated successor outright to the Germans, or order to Marshal Petain's dictatorship, it to sall against the British it scilles-and Germany continues to Minister, of Navy, Foreign Affairs is belleved the fleet would mutiny requisition foodstuffs in the un- and interior, is the current before accepting any such orders occupied area. But if the blockade "strong" man" of "`unoccupied |— it is quite likely that the order is clamped on, the prople who France.
!
Darlan Power-Mad
Darlan has become power-madTM and will drag the French Fleet Into the war against England if
to convoy Frerich merchant ships will starve will be the friends. would be oboyed without ques- of the Allies and the helpless tion. The end result would be poor. You can be sure the pro- the same, conflict with the Royal German 5 per cent, won't go Navy.
hungry. They get everything they need now, and more and "sans. ticket" at that.
American and British diplo• macy took the wind out of the