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| | New Statesman - Action man |
 | | By 1915, Action Francaise had over 300 sections, and the circulation of the news-paper ranged between 40,000 and 150,000 copies, with its many other publications reaching an even greater number of readers. |
 | | But by then, it was too late - the language of Action Francaise had entered the Church Militant, and the bonds between Catholicism and Maurrassianism bore fruit in the words and deeds of the men of Vichy. |
 | | Xavier Vallat, a Catholic member of Action Francaise, was the first commissioner for Jewish affairs in the Vichy government, and thus the first to implement Vichy's anti-Jewish legislation and to arrange for the despatch of Jews to Auschwitz. |
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