Word: collaborationist
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...World War I veteran (with the Médaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre), Antoine Pinay was one of the 569 French parliamentarians who voted state powers to Marshal Pétain at Vichy in 1940. But Pinay managed to avoid collaborationist charges by his excellent record as wartime mayor of Saint-Chamond in the Loire. He operates a tannery in the Rhone town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise. It was the conservative look of Premier Pinay which attracted the Gaullist right wing...
...violently between the champions of either its army or its navy. The last successful Siamese coup in 1947 jolted navy-backed Premier Pridhi Banomyong, leader of Siam's pro-allied underground during World War II, out of power, and supplanted him with Army Man Phibun, a wartime Japanese collaborationist who is now an ardent friend of the West. Last week, with Phibun held prisoner on the warship Sri Ayuthia in the harbor, the navy announced that a new government, headed-with Siamese illogic-by a dissident ex-army officer, was taking over. The army supported Foreign Minister Nai Warakan...
Author René Sédillot is a Parisian economist who began his project in 1941 "because I didn't want to write collaborationist articles, and yet didn't want my pen to turn rusty." His book won critics' applause in Paris, sold nearly 100,000 copies in Sweden, was published in London, may soon come out in Argentina and Norway. U.S. readers will find that there is good reason for this success: for all its brevity, Sedillot's history is a bold and breathless tale of suspense...
...Ballet, curtain bows run into the dozens-long after a good part of the audience has already left the hall. So when Russian-born Ballet Master Lifar brought his Opéra Ballet to Manhattan in 1948, and was greeted by a picket line denouncing him as a collaborationist,* he could hardly contain his indignation. Last week, in Paris, it looked as if Lifar might be having his revenge...
Politically, he has been no more distinguished than his hero Leopold. During the war he acted as if there were no war, contributed stories to collaborationist papers. When others, writing in French magazines, denounce his wartime course, he shrugs them off as "professionals of the Liberation." His friends have tried to excuse him by saying that he wrote anti-racist stories which the Nazi censor rejected, but he himself offers no defense for what he did or did not do. As a practicing pessimist, he prefers to meet such, questions, as he does most others, merely with a silent stare...