Biographer André Maurois, onetime liaison officer with the British Army, notable defender of Petain, refugee in Manhattan since the fall of France, prepared to join the Giraud forces in North Africa as a captain.
Song-&-dance Man Maurice Chevalier, who has turned quisling, was all set to walk onstage in a Charleroi, Belgium hall, when saboteurs blew up the electrical installations.
Premier Pierre Laval was reported dickering for a piece of real estate on the shore of Switzerland's Lake Genevawhere Byron's famed Prisoner of Chillon ate his heart out.
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