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DE BRINON:
(Continued from Page 11)
with other Gorman anti-Fascists into Paris. But Mandela police Paris. Not until 1930 did I learn, at his heels day and night. through a friend in the Paris Prefec ture, that do Brinon from time to:
were
April 5, 1941.
Colony Black-Out
Short Exercise To Be Held This Month
The Director of Air Raid Precau- tions announces that there will be a short black-out exercise on the night of April 17.
The exercise will · commence at tically terminate at 10 p.m. the same (0.44 p.m.) and will autofna- night.
sunset
I've got to get that man," mutter- tlose furnished the German Consulate ed Mandel, who had kept a special General in Paris with reports about file on de Brinon for many years. the emigres he met.
Mandel hud de Brinon's homo search-
The signal for the termination of De Brinon's old friends and put-ed, but just before the war de Brinon the exercise will be the switching on rons, Laval and Finndin, had been had transferred all his flies and do- of all street lights.
de A further detalled communication shelved ever since 1938. But early cuments to Switzerland. As for In 1938 Bonnet become Foreign Min- Brinon himself, Mandel was unable will be issued later, but it should be ister, and he lost no time before en- to lay hands on him. Over many noted that the exercise will be con- tering into close relations with de by Ways le escaped to the Swiss bor dueled on the same lines as the pro- Brinon, who then still was on the der. He stayed in Lausanne until vious black-out. stolk of L'information, besides contri-the armistice, He had plenty of time; buting regularly to a whole series of for he knew that his hour would official Nazl publications De Brinon, come Actually it was only a few moreover, was himself the owner of him to report to the German Em- days until a letter arrived asking German-language paper in Lorraine bassy at Berne. There his passport that openly sympathised with Hitler was visaed and he was politely re-
the Buergerzeliung of Vorbach:
quested to go to Stuttgart at once, Under Bonnet's enre de Brinon was where Abetz was waiting urgently to able to bring his talents to full frui- consult him. tion, almost without restraint,
"ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER
ANSWERS TO QUIZ
I. Yes Mr Churchill. 2. At one time in the Navy some sailors were allowed to keep their wives on board ship, and a "son of n gun" was a child born under the berthing of a
3. Fixed in broadside t
tho eighteenth century by Britain, United
gun. states and France when the extreme gun range was three miles. 4.
produce shrill sounds or tweedle is to to Idle
on a musical instrument.
two things or parties
which
Is
difference.
To
Tweedledee and Tweedledun mean
is characters in Alice Through the Looking-glass," b. That he has a mania for incendiarism, 6. Seagull. 7. (a) Sir Patrick Duncan (b) Sir Walter Citrine (e) Yosuke Matsuoka. 8. 7-1/3 lbs. 9, Both have 12 pairs. 10. Stick used to stendy the hand in painting,
France had fallen, but de Brinon was on his way up. He
became Laval's secretary, found the job too It was de Brinon who managed unimportant, and got himself trans- von Ribbentrop's famous trip to Paris ferred to Paris 10 deal with the Ger- in December, 1938, when the Franco-mons-his friends whose language to Gorman Pact of Amity was signed.
and ways he understood, The Pact, of was just And Brinun, mbrace couper, an had been mante dow at 32, de first World the Munich Pact so solemnly conclud- War and secret negotiator with the ed three months before. A number enemy during the second World War, of glittering receptions were held in feels he is on the ladder to the success honours of von Ribbentrop. The he has so treacherously sought. guest lats were drawn up by 08 do Brinon in collaboration_with_his friend' Abelz, who was
then Ger- ambassader unoMetal many's
The wedding took place at the Paris.
members of the in- Whyte-Smith, Many
Registry yesterday, before Mr T. S. tellectual elite of France
Registrar, attended
of Mr these receptions, bilssfully ignorant Spencer Moosa,
of representative Hongkong
Associated Press, and of the fact that they were merely be formerly Reuter's representative in Lieutenant K. E, Young, 1st Bn. The
to Miss Ninn Reeze, of Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cam
in
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It is notified for information that
ing used as folls. The entire Comic Conghal. The bride in the daughter bridge's Own) will act as Aide-de-
Franer-Allemagne responded to be
Brinon's call, from Henry-Haye,
then
Mayor
of Versailles
and
of the late Baron Alexander von Camp to His Excellency the Gover- to-day Reeve. The ceremony was witnessed nor until Captain S. II. Batty-Smith Vichy's Ambassador in Washington, by Messrs W. O'Neill, and I, C. has fully recovered from the effects to Jules Romains and the Deputy Kees and Madame M, E. Parsons, of his recent accident. Scapin!, to-day French Ambassador
nt Berlin. And how gratefully von Ribbentrop glanced at the · Impresa- rios, de Brinon and Abetz, when he was presented to the venerable Mar- shal Petain!
Bonnet was so delighted with de Brinon's stage management of von Ribbentrop's visit and his work of "reconciliation" that in the spring of of 1939 he decided to send him ou secret diplomatic mission to Berlin. De Brinon was to negotiate with Goering and give assurances
that France, in the face of the growing opposition within the French people,
determined to Institute authoritarian regime--that is to say, tonuilly
the influence of the Parliament as for my
as possible and to introduce severe restrictions upon freedom of speech and press. De Brinon absolved himself of this, his firat diplomatic mission, with great skill.
was
The summer of 1939 saw Parts divided into two camps, hotly con- tending with each other. Daladler, slarmed by reports from the War Ministry, Issued orders of expulsion against Abetz and a number of Ger- man journalists whose fifth column activities had meanwhile reached the proportions of an open scandal. On the other slide de Brinon, with Bonnet's backing, mode desperate at- tempts to rally all the pro-Hitler elements around himself.
STAYED IN BRUSSELS
Then came the_war_De_Brinon. was in Brussels and he thought it better to stay there. There were many people in Paris who did not care for him at all and who might (~ evince an Interest in the dossiers that had been compiled concerning de Brinon's activities.
But Bonnet, who had switched from the Foreign Office to the Ministry of Justice early in the war, continued to protect de Brinon from public attack and criminal prosecu- tion. When Daladier and Bonnet Coll and Reynaud became Premier, soon making Mandel his Minister of the Interior, Parls once again became ioo hot for de Brinon. Ho went to Brussels and Amsterdam.
In Brussels, de Brinon fell victim to one last illusion." His German Informant, Abelz in the lead, told him how generously Hitler would deal with France, If France got out of the war. Did de Brinon really silli believe in Hitler's sincerity? At any rate, he faithfully handed on his information to his friends in Paris.
Hitler's invasion of Belgium and
the Netherlands sent him flying back
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