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Jean Trémoulet, the Unloved Consul-General, MARGARET BARRET " Action
The Australian government, led by Robert Menzies, knew that Trémoulet had little choice but to represent the Vichy administration. The regime Pétain established after a large majority of French senators and deputies had voted in his favour was widely regarded as legitimate, at least in eyes other than those of the Free French (Kedward 1985, 2). The allegiance of all the officials under Vichy was mandatory, and failure to conform brought sanctions. It did so in Mexico City, for example, where the neutral stand of the French head of legation, Albert Bodard, lost him his post. Vichy also dismissed Bodard’s successor, Gilbert Arvengas, who had refused to cooperate with local representatives of the Axis powers and declined to bully his compatriots into accepting the authority of Pétain’s administration (Rolland 1990, 114, 373, 387)." Laurent Laloup le jeudi 14 septembre 2017 Contribution au livre ouvert de Gilbert Arvengas | |
