In the cold, cheerless onetime health resort which is now the capital of unoccupied France, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain last week proceeded with the construction of a state designed to suit both him and Adolf Hitler. After weeks of shuffling with names, Chief of State Petain announced the personnel of his National Council, a consultative chamber with a corporative look about it. Sixty-eight of the 188 members were onetime members of ParliamentRightists and renegade Leftists. The rest included industrialists, shipowners, churchmen, war veterans, scientists, artists, artisans, miners, seamen, one Negro, no...
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