The Archive · 1941

Pro-German Figures

London, May 6, The French Nazi leader, M. Fon: tenóy. who recently disappeared, was killed in a Paris street and his body thrown into the Seine, states the Free French newspaper "France."

M. Fontenoy was one of the Jeading organizers of the Nazi-inspired Ras-semblement National Populaire.

"Quislings" in Paris fear that the liquidation of M. Fontenoy may be only the first step of a series, the Free French paper adds.

M. jel Peri, Communist Vice-President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies under M. Leon Blum, has been condemned in Paris to five yeary imprisonment, if caught on French soi He was charged with transmitting instructions of the Communist Party to a secret meeting near Paris in September. He has since disappeared.

M. Peri was the editor-in-chief of ihe official Communist organ "L'Humanité."—Reuter,

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