Vichy, May 14.
The Council of Ministers today heard the Vice-Premi Admiral Francois Darlan, n port that Chancellor Adolf Hitler had offered France a close-working agreement and equal status provided Marshal Philippe Petain turned his back on the Anglo-Saxons and rallied full-heartedly to the Führer's conception of a new deal in Europe and Asia.
Herr Hitler also desired that France contribute pacifically to ihe consecration of a German victory to enable the formation of an economic and politic bloc of European nations—
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