Word: obey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field Marshal Busch told me that Hitler had forbidden any retreat and ordered that every foot of ground be defended. Although in my opinion this order was erroneous, I was compelled to obey...
Terrified women, clutching their children, and sullen, bewildered men hurried to obey the harsh-faced Germans, who had tommy guns at their hips. Old people and invalids were rooted out, sent hobbling after the others...
Rich, benevolent Sir Sayed had a reputation as an apostle of Allah to maintain. Although his fighting father had killed General ("Chinese") Gordon, King George V had forgiven and knighted the son. Now Sir Sayed determined to break the market, enable his followers to obey the Prophet's injunction: marry and beget sons...
...Vichy began to split. Marshal Philippe Petain. Chief of State, had just returned from a tour of bombed French cities. Propped up by occasional doses of benzedrine, the old man spoke less of collaboration than of unity and nationalism. But, at invasion showdown, he called upon French men to obey the Nazis. Pierre Laval, hated alike by Petain and by anti-Nazi French men, echoed the Marshal's words: "France must be dignified and disciplined in attitude. . . . We are not in the war." It was not enough. More violent Nazi- philes, their bridges already burned behind them...
Frenchmen heard the final contrast between the leader of Vichy, Marshal Pétain, and the leader in exile, General de Gaulle. The Old Man of Vichy, magnificent only in his consistency, begged his countrymen to ignore Allied or Gaullist commands, and to obey the Germans lest Nazi reprisal fall on France. General de Gaulle, shunned until the last moment, instructed them to heed "the French Government" (i.e., his own), and said: "France, overwhelmed . . . but never conquered, is on her feet to take part. . . . The simple, sacred duty is to fight...