Word: petain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief of staff who rose through 40 years in naval rank to Chief of Naval Operations (1937-39), went to work after retirement as Ambassador to Vichy-France; of a stroke; in Washington. Shaggy-browed, coolly logical Bill Leahy proved his diplomacy by gaining the confidence of old Marshal Petain, Nazi-approved boss of conquered France, and helping to neutralize France. Recalled to the U.S. in 1942, Old Sea Dog Leahy stayed close to F.D.R.. advised him without unduly influencing him (he took exception to some of the concessions to Russia at the Yalta Conference but was overruled), remained...
...Weygand looked like a little rat in a trap -caught. Petain looked like a great old image. Darlan trying to show the bluff sailor. And the politicians snatching at everything. I thought they were a hopeless...
Marshal Pétain. "In spite of everything, I am convinced that in other times Marshal Petain would not have consented to don the purple in the midst of national surrender . . . But alas! under the outer shell, the years had gnawed his character. Age was delivering him over to the maneuvers of people who were clever at covering themselves with his majestic lassitude. Old age is a shipwreck...
...chief of state, De Gaulle will be the direct successor to two Presidents of the Fourth Republic, two Emperors named Napoleon, 14 Presidents of the Third Republic (none now living), Vichy's Marshal Petain, and a string of kings ranging in power from the glorious days of Louis XIV, the Roi Soleil, to the hunted 10th century time of Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian line, who scarcely dared stir out of Paris for fear of being trounced by the powerful Count of Flanders and the proud Duke of Normandy...
...name Franco). "The moral qualities of Francisco Franco as a ruler," said Arriba, "are infinitely superior to those of Emperor Augustus, Charles V, and Napoleon." Such men as Franco, concluded the Catholic Ya, "are the instruments of the highest designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy Marshal Petain's remark that Generalissimo Franco's "is the cleanest sword in Europe." Only the Syndicalist paper Pueblo avoided sycophantic assent. Wrote Pueblo sharply: "We believe that rhetoric is indissolubly united to the decadence of Spain over the past centuries...