Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1944 — Page 16

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Propose Legal Transfer of

Philippe Petain and Chief of Gov-| ernment Pierre Laval are tre- | mendously busy these days, accord:

Vichy Government to i De.Gaulle.

By Times Poreign Service

BERNE, Switzerland, Aug.

Chief of State Marshal Henri

ing to all indications. They are busy

on the eve of its full liberation, and at the same time are frantically working to save what they can of their own personal prestige. It appears that the Vichy leaders | still play a part in the establishment of Charles de Gaulle's government in France by handing him their powers “legally.” On this | point Laval seems to be in full accord with his chief for the first: time, For his part. Petain is believed to be just now engaged at his Chateau near Vichy in seeking Washington's backing for a move, on his part to “legalize the nomi-

nation of Gen. de Gaulle as Frances 2” N leader, WZ ~ Letter to Washington 2

The aged marshal is reported by reliable quarters here, to have ad-| dressed a letter to Washington explaining that he, and he alone, can . do this by bestowing on De Gaulle _ the powers he, Petain, .con- © stitutionally retains. It 1s also reliably reported that | san American friend still in France recently sent a letter to Gen. Pershing informing bim that Petain’s popularity - was still considerable and that it would be a mistake completely to overlook Petain as an element favorable to the maintenance of order in the difficult days ahead for France. ] Laval, for his part, is reported to be extreemly active in Paris whence he sped precipitiously after an abortive coup d’etat by his personal foes. the arch-collaborationisis Marcel Deat and Jacques Doriot and the head of the old Francist group (French National Socialist party), Marcel Bucart, which would have succeeded hadgit not been for last-minute intervention by German Ambassador Otto Abetz and the Wehrmacht, It appears that Laval's initial move upon arrival in Paris was to order the arrest of Bucart. Then he appointed himself chief of police for Paris, with the backing of prefect bussieres of the Paris police. The militia of Joseph Darmand, greatly weakened through numerous desertions, has been practically withdrawn from Paris, according to reports reaching here. Laval's self-appointed task, which i= to keep Paris extremists from siding with the gestapo, has apparently been made easier bv the hasty departure of the heads of the gestapo when they learned that American troops had reached Le Mans. Copyright. 1944. by The Indianapolis Times and _The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

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