The Archive · 1941

U.S. Envoy Sees Petain

f Rerlin, Feb, 7. Marshal Philippe Petain, Premier of the Vichy Government, yesterday Wer Admiral Leahy, United States 'Ambasdsaor, according to a Vichy' message to the official German news agency.—Reuter, Maybe they moved in time for Christmas dinner, which was posing a problem for Mrs. Rogers the last time we saw her. She was saving her rooster for Christmas because turkeys can't be obtained in Cornwall.

A few weeks before the holiday, she heard of a farmer who had 19 new-born pigs. That sounded Wke suckling pig might be possible for Christmas dinner. But the farmer said that while he'd like to sell her one, he couldn't sell less than two, one of which had to be kept alive and raised to maturity. He added that by Christmas the suckling pig would tip the scales at about 60 pounds.

Mr. Rogers was still hoping for a goose but chances are that her flock is now minus a rooster.

Mrs. Rogers has the family car with her in Cornwall. Her banker husband uses a bicycle to get around in London, small Petrol Ration

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