However when planning the 1,000th performance of the orchestra (and commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of Debussy), Inghelbrecht refused to conduct a programme of the occupying forces and on 18 July 1943 received a note suspending his appointment by order of President Laval.
French (Vichy) Prime Minister Pierre Laval was enthusiastic of the proposal, and in a document to Hitler he wrote that France was ready for territorial sacrifices in Tunisia and Alsace-Lorraine to bring about an "atmosphere of confidence" in Europe.
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In foreign policy, Maurras and Bainville supported Pierre Laval's double alliance with Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy and with the United Kingdom in the Stresa Front (1935) on one side, and with the Soviet Union on the other side, against the common enemy Nazi Germany.
Pierre Laval, the French prime minister, refused to grant Serge an entry permit, but Emile Vandervelde, a veteran socialist who by then was a member of the Belgian government, managed to obtain Serge a visa to live in Belgium.
They were Pierre Laval, Milice leader Joseph Darnand, and Fernand de Brinon, representative of the Vichy government to the German High Command in Paris and state secretary.