Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis. If Adolf Hitler fails to take Britain this year, he will have to go east for oil. If he does take Britain, there will be a scramble for Britain's Eastern protectorates and possessions. Last week General Maxime Weygand hurried to Vichy to see Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and discuss, among other things, Syria. Last week, coincident with the German move through Bulgaria, Russia sent troops into the Caucasus, from which point they could either help to protect Turkey or join in the Near Eastern scramble...
From Vichy last week came news that Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was moving ever closer toward the "collaboration" that Adolf Hitler wants. The Marshal appointed a new Ministry in which the name of no enemy of collaboration appeared, a new five-man Cabinet top-heavy with portfolios for the man who has taken over the task of arranging collaboration, Admiral Jean François Darlan. The Admiral is now Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Navy, Minister of the Interior, and the Marshal's designated successor...
...February 1916, in the second year of World War I, the German Army launched its attack on the fortress of Verdun. Although forced to yield ground, 59-year-old General Henri Philippe Pétain held Verdun and the German drive collapsed. Last week Germany found Marshal Pétain, now 84, the same stubborn tactician...
...Henri 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...
...break down: strength of character. In eight months the Marshal has achieved a good deal of success. His people see him as the personification of patriarchical strength of character. The Church, both Catholic and Protestant, supports him for his endorsement of religion. And last week Chief of State Henri Philippe Pétain felt strong enough to stand against the Germans again as he had done 25 years ago at Verdun...