Word: petain
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...there was a distressing interruption. Brilliant Academician Charles Maurras, the aged royalist, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration (TIME, Feb. 5). Should he be expelled? Heretofore, the old men had loftily disregarded such problems-one of their colleagues was Marshal Petain. But what had he to do with the letter...
...from under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning Japanese diplomats. It kept him at least outwardly calm when New Deal left-wingers shrilly accused him of appeasing Petain, Darlan, Franco and Badoglio...
...aseptic start, the Gaullist Government formally "abolished" the "French State" of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. "In law," it proclaimed, "the Republic never ceased to exist...
Chief among these in world prestige was probably the brilliant 66-year-old pianist Alfred Cortot. He had a bad record. An outspoken advocate of Vichy, he had been named State Director of Music under Petain, had played widely in Germany. Last week Cortot was released from F.F.I, custody because of age, failing health, and a record of occasional efforts to keep young French musicians from service in Hitler's labor battalions...
Three days later, Petain turned up in the small French town of Morvillars, six miles from the Swiss border. Near by were Chief of Government Pierre Laval and the head of the Vichy Militia, Joseph Darnand. At last report, Petain and Laval were in Germany. The whereabouts of labor chief Marcel Deat and fascist leader Jacques Doriot were not reported. But Fernand Bouisson, president of the Vichy Chamber of Deputies, had been caught by the Maquis four miles from St. Raphael, was being held for Allied justice...