VICHY IN EXILE
PETAIN'S PUPPET TEAM
LONDON, November 22. Most reliable reports reaching Paris state that Marshal Petain, Pierre Laval, and other prominent ex-mem-bers of the Vichy Government have formed a puppet Government in the south German city of Sigmaringen, says the Paris correspondent of the British United Press.
The seat of the Government is Sigmaringen Castle, over which the Germans allow Petain to fly the Tricolour. Petain holds audiences daily, and periodically reviews a bodyguard of French in Waffen S.S. uniforms with a tricolour patch.
The shadow Government consists of such leading Vichyite war criminals as Deat, Darnard. Doriot, and de Brinon. and a handful of collaborationist officials who fled with Petain. They have their own newspaper, which is edited by a former editor of "l'Oeuvre," and the notorious Paris radio commentator, Jean Paquis. continues daily broadcasts, beginning: "Here is France."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1944, Page 7
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142VICHY IN EXILE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1944, Page 7
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