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

Out of the 36 Committees of Professional Organizations that were
created to form the core of the Vichy government's political, financial, and
economic organizations (mining, industry and transport), the Banque Worms
president, Jacques Barnaud, was overseeing 25 of them in the name of the
Synarchy Movement of Empire, run secretly out of Belgium by the Duc de
Guise. ( M. R. Degaud. {Note sur le development de la Banque Worms &
Cie.}, French Intelligence files on the Synarchy, Paris, October 6, 1944,
p.15.)
On June 14, in Bordeaux, the Leader of the Chamber of Deputies,
Synarchist Adrien Marquet had logged Laval in the same Hotel Splendide
where he had also accommodated Countess de Portes, the mistress of
Reynaud. The next day, Marquet installed Laval in an office next to his, at
the Hotel de Ville, where they and Madame de Portes began a last minute
maneuverings in preparation for the final assault against Reynaud.
Beast-man Laval's hour had come and he was determined to go all the
way with his treason. He said that since the Third Republic of Reynaud
{vomited} him, it was now time for him to {vomit} the Third Republic and
Reynaud. Just before leaving for Bordeaux, Laval had said to his friend
Senator Jacques Bardoux: "Let Reynaud bear the shame of asking for a
capitulation. But he must not be allowed to negotiate it…He has insulted
Hitler and Mussolini and will receive the hardest conditions. I'm going to
ask Marshal Petain to let me do it." (Shirer, p.804.) In his negotiations,
Reynaud intended to call for certain conditions, such as rights of civilians
and the retreat of the soldiers in arms. Laval wanted none of that.
On June 14, Paul Reynaud also fled to Bordeaux, after having been
exhausted by the antics of Madame de Portes. Reynaud decided to live in
separate quarters. General Weygand had left Paris in a leisurely train ride to
Bordeaux, getting ready to fight Reynaud, and force the government to
capitulate unconditionally. The next day, Reynaud insisted that General
Weygand ask the German for a cease fire while the government was going to
move to Africa, and continue the war from there. Weygand refused, and
backed up by Marshal Petain, demanded that the government, which had
declared war on Germany, should now ask for an armistice.
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