PETAIN A WRECK
NOT SPEAKING TO LAVAL NEW YORK, Sept. 19 Argentine diplomats en route home from Germany say that a meeting between Petain, Laval and other members of the Vichy Cabinet occurred last week in Freiburg, states the New York Times correspondent in Gothenburg. Petain was severely shaken by events in France and evidently was not on speaking terms with Laval. He was a tottering wreck on the verge of collapse and was scarcely able to walk. He had tc be assisted by his wife and two secretaries. He said: “Of course, I am delighted that France has been freed.”
Laval and the other quislings continued to have cordial relations with the Germans, v/ho buzzed around Them continuously, but Petain reiiised to see Germans or the former Japanese Ambassador to Vichy, who attempted to visit him...
The entire French party was removed later to another part of Germany.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22459, 21 September 1944, Page 5
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