THE NEW FRANCE
t PETAIN TO SUPERSEDE ; PRESIDENT i 1 HEADQUARTERS IN OCCUPIED 2 TERRITORY. :1 s UNDER GERMAN PERMISSION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, July 11. The French radio announced tha
Marshal Petain would succeed M Lebrun (President) as chief of the State. Marshal Petain, broadcasting from Vichy announced that he was seeking Germany’s permission to transfer the seat of government to occupied France. The Government would be established at Versailles and the Ministries in Paris. The new State would be decentralised and based on the old provincial system of pre-Republican France. The framework of the constitution is based on totalitarianism, ) with decentralised units administering affairs of State. The new Government would have 12 Ministers. The 30 .’ provinces of old Bourbon France r would have governors and 90 existing 1 prefects of Departments would lose 5 much of their power. Marshal Petain denounced internaf tional capitalism and international sor cialism. L' ——.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1940, Page 6
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151THE NEW FRANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1940, Page 6
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