Word: petain
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Above loyalty to the chief of state there is loyalty to the state and to the caste. Many an observer has guessed that on the eve of Germany's defeat the caste may betray Hitler, pick a Junker-perhaps Manstein-to play the Teutonic Petain. For, despite defeat and despair, the German burgher of today has no greater military idol than Manstein...
According to this account, German Ambassador Otto Abetz had traveled to Vichy, ready to lay down the law with a six-page letter in Joachim von Ribbentrop's most violent vein. The message accused Petain of "departing from the policy agreed on at Montoire," and made three main demands...
...Indictment of the Vichy regime in hard words: the Committee promised "an action of justice in regard to Marshal Petain and those participating in the pseudo-government formed by him, which capitulated, struck at the Constitution, collaborated with the enemy, delivered French workers to the Germans, and made French forces fight against the Allies or against the French who continued the struggle...
Your lurid and sinister picture of papal politics belies the Christian aims of the Vatican. Franco, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Petain were not raised up by the Pope; he makes the best of a situation and tries to improve it. He works for justice, peace, charity, for religion and human welfare...
...played the island's strategic position, idle warships and hoarded gold against U.S. pressure. Now he refused utterly to deal with the Committee of Liberation. Said Henri Hoppenot: the Admiral was in a "tragic frame of mind . . . suffering from a Messianic complex and retaining a fanatic loyalty to Petain." From Martinique Georges Robert went into exile in U.S. Puerto Rico, under the protection of the U.S. Navy...