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Petain Makes Laval Gauleiter
LONDON--Marshal Henri Petaiu invested Pierre Laval with dictatorial powers today and the pro-Axis Vichy government chief promptly exercised them by shaking up his cabinet, replacing the ministers of Navy and Communications, the Vichy radio announced tonight
In bostowing "full powers" on Laval, Potaiu also desiguated him as his deputy and presumptive successor, and a German radio report from Vichy said Laval "alone will announce laws and decrees on his own repsonsibility."
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