While Free Frenchmen fought Vichy Frenchmen in Syria last week (see p. 21), in Vichy two of the most potent Vichy Frenchmen disagreed. If the disagreement did not prove that there was any slackening of Vichy's collaboration with the Nazis, it at least proved that the men of Vichy could still violently differ about degrees and methods of collaboration, that Adolf Hitler had not managed to force them all into one goose-stepping mold.
Up from Algeria to Vichy flew the trim-mustached little Commander of the French North African Army, General Maxime Weygand, for...
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