It was only another alibi in case things went wrong, As soon as capitulation was assured by the actual conclusion of an armistice Darlan fold all' and sundry that "England will be liquidated in three weeks,"
He was wrong in his judgment then, He has been wrong ever since, but once having taken steps io oust Laval (but so cleverly that he is now reconciled with him), he was completely dependent on Germany's support, He had already burnt his boats, this man of prudence—this man of fear who now trembles at the thought of a British victory and who has one qualification for the role he has undertaken: he faithfully re-fleets that the section of French society which had lost the war even before it had started, which feared above all for its position in the French social hierarchy and was only too aptly symbolized in the person of the nefarious Countess Helene de Portes, the uncrowned queen of Paris defeatists and decadents.—Reuter, Japanese Fishers in
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