Germany does not dictate all the decrees of Vichy directly. But the peace of France will not be written until warfare ceases, and Vichy commits the pardonable sin of wishing to please the conqueror so that the peace will be gentle. Therefore, some of the sentences of Vichy have had a gutteral German hardness about them. Last week for the first time came words so un-French, so very German in accent that the outside world found it hard to believe they came from the mouth of an old fighter for France, Henri Philippe Pétain.
Premier Pétain announced laws against French...
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