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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1940

VICHY CRISIS NOT

YET OVER: ABETZ TRIES PERSUASION FIRST

(By Reuter's Chief Diplomatic Correspondent)

THE CRISIS AT VICHY does not appear

to be over; under German pressure Laval has

been allowed his liberty but not reinstated in

office, though there is some suggestion that

he may represent the Vichy Government in Paris.

The interview between Marshal Petain and Otto Abetz, the Nazi Ambassador, must have been dramatic. The fact that it lasted three hours permits the inference that Abetz employed persuasive methods rather than brutal compulsion.

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He probably endeavoured convines Marshal Petain that La- val had been maligned and that | he had never conspired with Abetz? against Marshal Patain's security for the interests of the State.

Laval, brought from his place

al confinement, probably pledg. ed his oath that he had been misinterpreted.

Grudgingly, Petam

would ap-

BISHOP WANTS "COCK-A-DOODLE-

DOO" AS WARNING

"A gay cock-a-doodle-doo

LAVAL RETURNS TO PARIS

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As soon as he was re- leased in Vichy on Tues- day on Hitler's demand, Pierre Laval, deposed Minister, lost no time re- Vice-Premier and Foreign

turning to his German friends in Paris.

He has officially gone in a prl- vate capacity..

of Another departure is that Heir Abetz, Nazi Ambassador to Paris, who, in Tuesday's inter- view with Marshal Pe ain, pro- bably d. marded Laval's rein- statement.

Berlin official circles confirmi Abeiz has left for Paris and that Laval is also travelling in that

pear to have agreed to suspent · peated half a dozen times would Į die etion. but are pt pains to Judgment but not to renew eve keep our courage up far better deny that they ate travelling toge- fidence in Laval

than the present coletul wailither.

Rival Quislings

Flandin's position in the form velopments appears to have been entirely negative.

If Abetz insisted on the admis- sion of Laval to the Cabinet position would be strained,

the for

Germany therefore is unlike ly to impose this ordeal Vichy.

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which depresses all but the met s out-heared." writes the Bh of Chemsord Dr Henry Wilson, monthly ster to the Chelmsford Doczre.

"I hre wys e." he says, "hat a psychological blunder hus been committed in the manner

raying. courage

al-

It is now regarded as most cer aln that Ate'z threa. toned Marshal Pe'ain and is reported ho threatened That Germany

would Occupy the whole of France unless Laval was released.

The Laval case is entering

dee's ve chase," according to Ber-

lin circles,

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It is ensidered that Italy's de- ́eat and internal condition is Hitler caus'n acute anxie'y to

two rival "Quislings" in one Cain which the warning of an air

The old binet wou'd tend to neutralise the raid is given. value of both.

"Whistle to keen your up.' is a scientific truth.

"Now the air raid siren has no note of gay defiance. It uses a Reports that Laval favoured depressing wail like the crv of y permitting the passage of German lost soul, and i psychologica{la eslew of complete-collaboration troops to Italy are not confirmed effect is profoundly bad."

with Germany-Reuter. from any indisputable source.

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If the Germans wished to send troops hurriedly to Italy they would use the Brenner ·Pass. decision to break through unoreu- pied France is improbable as it would be in opposition to the German policy of the past many weeks.

Nazi Objective

Object has been to secure th full collaboration of France ir place of Italy.

Hitler knows his troops could enter unoccupied France at any moment but it is far more impor- tant for him to have the French navy and the French Colonial Em- pire on his side.

Hence the gentle methods em. ployed in dealing with Marsha' Petain and the use of his self- Ereking politicians such as La- val and Flandin.

So far, however, Marsbal Pc- 1nin has resisted nil German blandishments.-Reuter.

L.C.C.'S BILL FOR EVACUEES

Less than one-sixth of the cost of billeting schoolchildren eva- cuated from London is being re- covered from the parerits, accord- fing to a report submitted at

meeting of the London County Council...

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The Council was asked by the Minister of Health to - undertake the task of recovering from par- ents the cost of billeting, which was estimated at Os, a head pe. week Parents were invited to ('pay the full sum, but, if they offered. 6s., this was accepteu without question; jf they offered less, or nothing at all, their mean were inquired into,»«

Peße wanścicloner: 8. 1983; and August 30 last a total of £645,000 was collected in respect of about 102,000 children, equivalent to £760,000 for a full year. The expenses of ifëse čni uren ht 93. a week, not counting cost of ova cuation, amounts to £4.600.000 year.

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