Word: petain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Challenge, popped up on What's My Line?, The Last Word, and six memorable sessions of the Jack Paar Show. Last week, in his second Omnibus show, he won hosannas for directing and starring in a televersion of his own satiric tragedy, Moment of Truth, playing a Petain-like elder statesman with overtones of King Lear...
...Visionary Ramsay MacDonald, introduced the "Geneva Protocol" into the League of Nations, a first international attempt to outlaw aggression; canceled (1932) the German reparations agreements and plunged France soon after into such deep financial troubles that despite his efforts France repudiated its U.S. debts. He irresolutely stuck to Marshal Petain's Cabinet in 1940, but two years later protested the twisting of the constitution into a dictatorship, was arrested by the Nazis and held until near war's end, when he politely refused the offer of Pierre Laval to form a provisional government...
...cried: "If a miracle is needed to save France, I believe in miracles because I believe in France." He called for "clouds of airplanes from across the Atlantic," but because he was driven back to Bordeaux, boxed in by collaborationist politicians and forced to yield the government to Marshal Petain, his overly optimistic rallying cries in 1940 are cynically remembered today...
Brave Little Hens. When the earnings report of July 1942 shows 6 lbs. of ingots, 208 napoleons and 40,000 francs a month from assorted speculations, the Poissonards decide to pay their respects to the head of state, Marshal Petain. They bring him a box of duck eggs, and the ancient hero of Verdun mumbles: "Brave little hens of France." But soon it is time for the Bon Beurre to butter up a new power. A good year before war's end, the Poissonards are tactfully praising DeGaulle in public, and Charles-Hubert becomes a hero of the Resistance...
...eyes of all France watched as Gaston, his weathered features paler after a year in jail, faced his tribunal of seven jurors and three judges. The courtroom was packed with a crowd of 400 eager spectators for the most publicized French trial since those of Petain and Laval in 1945. Banks of reporters from Paris and London came down to tell the story for their readers. A U.S. movie producer dropped by to measure the film possibilities of Gaston's case. Famed French Author Jean Giono was on hand to get material for a book. By comparison with Gaston...