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...contemptuous speech about popinjay staff officers who shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, and talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman, of guns and drums and wounds. His blood runs thick with soldiery: his first ancestor in Britain was a Deveauville who came over with William the Conqueror, and he is the third general in three generations of Wavells. His father was and his son is with the famed Black Watch Regiment. Even his three daughters are in military work, and one is nicknamed Trooper. He is a strong family man who loves the luxury of spare time...
...Philippe Pétain stood in the same position: squarely in the path of Germany's ambition. When Super-Politician Adolf Hitler dictated his-armistice terms to a shattered France last June he undoubtedly planned to proceed by the rule he laid down in Mein Kampf: "A shrewd conqueror will always enforce his exactions on the conquered only by stages. Then he may expect that a people who have lost all strength of character will not find in any of these acts of oppression . . . sufficient grounds for taking up arms again." This time, however, Adolf Hitler found...
Laval wanted more. As on the night of his dismissal, he demanded authority for himself, with the Marshal as a figurehead. To back up his demand he offered tempting concessions on the part of the German conqueror. More war prisoners would be released. The cost of occupation would be reduced from $8,000,000 to $3,600,000 a day. The boundaries of unoccupied France might be extended, possibly to include Paris. Admiral Darlan took a train back to Vichy, half won over to Laval's cause...
...McAdoo was in Washington for the inauguration; he was still there last week when he met a greater conqueror than Adolf Hitler. Stricken with a heart attack, a few hours later William Gibbs McAdoo died...
Londoners recalled a famous Elizabethan prophecy that if Gog and Magog were ever destroyed, London's City would go too. Lost was the Guildhall's greatest treasure-the 11th-Century parchment charter granted the City of London by William the Conqueror...