DISMISSAL OF WEYGAND
REPORTED REQUEST FROM HITLER
NEW YORK, November 19. Quoting private sources, the United Press of America says the Vichy Government on Tuesday dismissed General Maxine Weygand from his post of Commander-in-Chief in North Africa in order to please Hitler. It is stated that General Weygand will not be replaced because of the special nature of his African job. General Weygand arrived in Vichy earlier in the week and it was suggested that his visit was concerned with German pressure on Vichy for his appointment as War Minister in succession to General Charles Huntziger.
The Germans felt that in his present post. General Weygand, as supreme commander of the French forces in Africa, was too independent and at Vichy he would be more under the control of the Vice-Premier, Admiral Jean Darlan.
The Daily Express says General Weygand was sacked on Hitler’s orders because he refused to disclose his plans for North African defence during a three-day conference with Marshal Petain. The Minister for the Colonies, Vice-Admiral Henri Platon, has gone to Africa to gather afresh the information which General Huntziger was bringing back when he was killed in a plane crash.
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Southland Times, Issue 24598, 21 November 1941, Page 5
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