Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-20 | Page 4 | German-French Accord Reported Nearing

German-French Accord Reported Nearing VICHY, France, Jan. 20 (AP) German-French negotiations, negotia-tions, which came to a dead end last December 13, when Pierre Laval lost his cabinet posts of vice premier and foreign minister, were expected Monday to be resumed soon as a result of the reconciliation re-conciliation of Laval and French Chief of State Marshal Philippe Petain. An official announcement Sunday Sun-day said their "misunderstanding" had been "dissipated" at a train coach conference Friday. Nothing was said as to whether I,val had been or would be re-Instated re-Instated In tha cabinet. Authorized sources said the domestic do-mestic and foreign policy of France would "In no way" be changed by the patching up of the Laval-Petain difference. "Tha marshal remains the chief of France, all France occupied and unoccupied and overseas," one source declared. "He remains the man in whom all authority rests. . . . Our duty is to follow him, whatever he does or says, whomever whom-ever he chooses, whatever policy ha pursues." It was announced officially that tha council of ministers would meet later Monday. (Laval's place as foreign minister min-ister was taken by Pierre-Etienne Flandin. but at that time Petain Indicated he would not appoint a vice premier. (Reports were heard In Bern, Switzerland, that Laval would be designated to resume his work as France's representative In the interrupted in-terrupted negotiations over French-German French-German collaboration. It was said, too, France might "streamline" her cabinet further, centering authority author-ity In fewer ministers. Petain already al-ready has cut his cabinet from 20 to eight ministers.)