Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk of Marshal Philippe Henri Pétain lay a proposed new constitution. It was described with understatement as calling for "a democratic electorate at the bottom checked by an aristocracy at the top." Actually the electorate was to have a voice as weak as in Germany, Italy or Russia-as can be seen from a diagram of the proposed Governmental framework...
Last week Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain continued to work his triple miracle by means not so much miraculous as tyrannical. Faced with increasing sabotage by Frenchmen who don't believe in the Pétain miracles, he set up special courts ordered to hear cases within ten days of arrests, to carry out death sentences pronto, without appeal...
Same day three anti-German agitators were put to death: one Szmul Tysselman, a Jewish emigre; one Henri Gautherot, a zealous French nationalist; one Jose Roig, a recruiter for De Gaulle...
...Fontainebleau last week squads of workmen yanked down statues of Lafayette and John Joseph Pershing. And in Vichy Marshal Henri Philippe Petain finally yanked off the veil of diplomatic phrasing in which for months he has swathed the face of French totalitarianism. He broadcast the basic rules of his new French order which he hopes will be profitably wedded to Adolf Hitler's new European order...
...Vichy last week grey old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and his North African commander General Maxime Weygand, a great little judge of horseflesh, drove up the river and out to the races. Perhaps this was intended to stifle persistent rumors of a rift between General Weygand and the Vichy Government, for otherwise it did not seem like the week for Vichymen to go frivoling. Adolf Hitler was bearing down harder than ever for outright Nazi-Vichy military collaboration in North Africa...