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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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In Vichy, France, on Sept. 26, Chief of Government Pierre Laval dismissed Secretary of State for German Relations Jacques Benoist-Mechin from the cabinet and Tricolor Legion presidency, accusing him of plotting with Germans to form a new cabinet excluding Laval and including Jacques Doriot and Vice Adm. Charles Platon.
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Vichy, Sept. 26. (UP)—Chief of Government Pierre Laval today dismissed Jacques Benoist-Mechin, secretary of state for German relations, from the cabinet and the presidency of the Tricolor Legion on the charge that he had plotted against him (Laval) in Paris.
Mechin vigorously but vainly resisted the dismissal order.
(The Tricolor Legion is that formed to provide "volunteers" to fight with the Germans against Russia.)
Laval charged that he had caught Mechin in a plot to interest the Germans in a new Vichy cabinet which would eliminate Laval and include Jacques Doriot, and Vice Adm. Charles Platon, secretary of state in the cabinet under Laval's prime ministry.
(Doriot is a Quisling French leader of the extreme right wing, headquartered at Paris, where he has previously sided with the Germans even against the Vichy government.)
Under the set-up which Mechin was charged with plotting, he would have had a much more important post.
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Vichy
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Sept. 26
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dismissal of jacques benoist-mechin from cabinet and tricolor legion presidency
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Chief of Government Pierre Laval dismissed Jacques Benoist-Mechin, secretary of state for German relations, from the cabinet and the presidency of the Tricolor Legion on the charge that he had plotted against him in Paris. Mechin resisted the dismissal. Laval accused Mechin of plotting to interest the Germans in a new Vichy cabinet eliminating Laval and including Jacques Doriot and Vice Adm. Charles Platon, where Mechin would have a more important post.