POSITION OF PETAIN
STILL SHROUDED IN MYSTERY MANY RUMOURS AFLOAT. REPORTED RENUNCIATION OF LAVAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 19. Reports from neutral sources today, all of them as yet unconfirmed, deepen the mystery that has surrounded Marshal Petain since the cancellation of the broadcast he had intended to make last Saturday. Some of the reports are that Petain has resigned, that Laval has resigned and that Petain has had a stroke. What purposes to be the text of the speech Marshal Petain had intended to deliver last Saturday has been published in a Swiss newspaper. According to this text, Petain proposed to give France a new constitution, to renounce all unconstitutional acts since the fall of France, and also to renounce Laval as his successor.
Another report states that Petain refused to grant unlimited powers to the Gestapo to deal with the French people.. '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1943, Page 4
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145POSITION OF PETAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1943, Page 4
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