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...weathervane, finally succumbed in impotence when German armies, at Hitler's command, swept through Unoccupied France in a 24-hour dash to the Mediterranean.* From Vichy's radio, now fully under German control, came repeated repudiations of everything Darlan did and the injunction to Frenchmen to obey only Pétain's orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Inheritors | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...least some of the Navy had the will, and the North African Army had the numbers, to obey the order which Marshal Petain issued from Vichy: "France and her honor are at stake. We have been attacked. We will defend ourselves. That is the order which I give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Dawn's Early Light | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Would he adore a sultan? He obey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1942 | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...three days out of the week and for six weeks the harried "slaves will carry buckets, curry favor, scream out the names of tacklers, change passing defense shirts, and obey the whims of their superiors instead of doing compulsory exercise. When the competition closes November 9, the winner will have earned his Major 1946 numerals will manage the final practices and along with his assistants who survive the contest, take charge of the Freshman Yale game in New Haven...

Author: By Co-manager OF Football and David E. Place, S | Title: PLACETELLS OF "SLAVE'S" JOB | 9/29/1942 | See Source »

...Bengal. Chennault in China, with his hardy but insufficient U.S. air force, at least taught the Japs what it was to be hit, and dreamed of what he could do with just a little more (see p. 26). MacArthur, trapped in Australia (see p. 44), had to obey orders and watch the play of Asian history from his seat Down Under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Man With a Plan | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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