synarchy movement of empire book ii - Pierre Beaudry's Galactic ...

According to war historian, Henry Torres, Laval already had his
program all prepared as early as July 10, 1940. "I have been among you
since 1914 and I do not forget that I come from the people," declared Laval
in a public speech. "But since parliamentary democracy insisted on taking up
the struggle against Nazism and Fascism, and since it has lost the fight, it
must disappear. A new regime must follow it, a regime which will be bold,
authoritarian, social and national…We have always followed in England's
wake. Nothing was more humiliating than the sight of our politicians going
to London to ask permission to be French Ministers…You can see where all
this has led us… We have no other road to follow than that of loyal
collaboration with Germany and Italy. I experience no embarrassment in
speaking thus, for even in peacetime, I favored such collaboration." (Henry
Torres, {Pierre Laval}, New York, 1941, p.262.) Indeed, it had become for
Laval a much better alternative to ask Germany the "permission to be French
Ministers."
A few months later, Laval was meeting at Montoire with Adolph
Hitler, on October 22, 1940. Hitler and Laval embraced each other, and
arranged to have Petain meet with Hitler, two days later, with a pledge of
total collaboration on the part of the French State. Laval was a complete and
unequivocal collaborator of the Nazis.
Thus, Laval's first task was to destroy the parliamentary system of
France. Laval did not waste one moment. He immediately convened the
National Assembly to Vichy and began to denounce the Third Republic as
the most corrupt "republican" regime, and as the source of all of the
disorders and anarchy in the country. In his speech of July 10, 1940, Laval
won over the National Assembly to the {New Order}. He convinced the
deputies to abdicate their powers to Marshal Petain, which they did. Petain
rewarded Laval by making him the Chief of Government for the new French
State. Laval had finally been appointed the leading spokesman for the
Germans inside of the French Government.
Then, Laval suffered a terrible set back on December 13, 1940, when
he was kicked out of the government by Petain who got him arrested. Laval
had been too recklessly pro-German and anti-British, and wanted to establish
a dictatorship at any cost. He was saying to anyone who wanted to hear: "I
have finally come round full circle, I have returned to the faith of my youth.
I alone am capable of severing the masses from democracy." On the other
hand, Petain was a Maurrassien who was considering the return of the
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