In June 1940 after the German break through and while the Government was still at Tours he had the effrontery to repeat his peace at any price policy declaring that he had always been for agreement with Hitler and Mussolini; that it was 'This insane pro-British policy and the overtures we made to the Soviets that have ruined France.' If people. he cried, had only listened to him!
"Laval is prepared to blame any likely scapegoat but himself for the disasters that have overtaken France.
He continually urged the request for an armistice because he said Mus solini would see that the terms were row, ing moving to the Right'
"From the very beginning? of Hitler's rise to power Laval was among the foremost Jot those who poohspoohed the thought of danger to France and Europe from. his in creasing strength and the successive acts of aggression committed by the Nazi regime,
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