Word: montauban
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metz have been forcibly retired for noncollaboration. In Unoccupied France, the hierarchy has solved the thorny problem of getting along with Vichy and at the same time preventing Petain from using Catholic groups as the social prop for his regime by keeping out of politics. Said the Bishop of Montauban: "We can naturally not collaborate when this involves a confusion between the spiritual and the temporal. . . . France, yes, and heartily, but God first...
Died. Manuel Azafia, 60, president of the Spanish Republic during the Civil War; of lung congestion, with heart complications; at Montauban, France...