Roosevelt agreed when his ambassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, described de Gaulle as “an apprentice dictator”. There is a chilling echo in Trump’s description of Volodymyr Zelensky as a ...
but the place where it changed was France. This year marks the 85th anniversary of the French State, better known as Vichy thanks to the spa town where it set up shop in 1940 following the defeat ...