LAVAL'S DEMAND
THE PREMIERSHIP
RIGHT TO NAME HIS CABINET
PETAIN HOLDING .OUT
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received February 6, noon.) LONDON, February 5. The Vichy correspondent of the British United Press says that M. Laval has demanded the Premiership and the right to name his own Government. An extraordinary meeting of the Vichy Cabinet to which even the Under-Secretaries have been summoned is to be held tonight. Marshal Petain is expected to broadcast to the nation. It is claimed in Berlin that M. Laval will shortly resume active control of the Vichy Government, with far more power than hitherto, but it is stated in Vichy that Marshal Petain is still holding out, playing for time. Marshal Petain today received General Studt, head of the German-con-trolled war industries in occupied France. General Studt visited the War Ministry with a French military
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 9
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139LAVAL'S DEMAND Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 9
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