Last week Vichy’s General Weygand was out of power (see p. 24) and the U.S. was —temporarily—out of a policy. U.S. policy has been that, as long as France did not give Hitler more help than the terms ...

Weygand, understudy and successor of Foch, was given command of the French Army on May 20, 1940, after the situation was desperate. Though at the time the Generalissimo hoped to reconstitute a front ...