In a 3,500-word declaration by Premier Henri Philippe Pétain, Free France got its New Order last week. The 84-year-old Marshal announced that, departing from the "universal bankruptcy of economic liberalism," France would seek a "harmonious combination of authority and liberty." The New Order would ban strikes and lockouts, break power trusts, regulate prices, control foreign commerce and exchange, abolish the gold standard, break away from traditional friendships and enmities, drop the Entente Cordiale with Great Britain, reinstate "true nationalism," base all French foreign relations upon collaboration with Germany.
For France it was...
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