Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, French Chief of State, has signed a decree removing Georges Lebeau as Governor – General of Algiers, the German wireless reported from Vichy today, adding: ” It is understood that Lebeau had close Jewish relations and that this change had something to do therewith.”
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