Word: petain
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...Even in the last war, Marshal Petain was a great pessimist," stated William Hermanns, in a Current Events talk at New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon. To illustrate his point, Hermanns read passages from books by Clemenceau and Foch which showed that Petain lacked self-confidence...
...Hermanns declared, Petain surrendered believing that French resistance was hopeless, and certain that England would immediately follow suit. In all his actions, he was backed trustfully by the people of France, blinded by the legend of his World War I prowess...
...Marne, he was made commander of the French 5th Army. As commander in chief of the Allied forces in the Balkans in 1918, he moved against the Central Powers from the port of Salonika, drove Bulgaria out of the war and forced the capitulation of Turkey. Aside from Petain he was France's only living Marshal...
...three causes. The first was the softness, not only of the French, but also of the British and American civilizations. The second was the lack of a will to win among the French people. The third cause was a miscalculation on the part of the French leader, Marshal Petain, who failed to take into account the strength of the British will to win. Expecting the British to yield, he surrendered before the Germans should completely overrun his homeland...
...France with the pro-English Duke of Burgundy, Radio Paris blatted: "In June 1940 Churchill asked Reynaud to unite France and Britain. What had been frustrated by Joan's sublime sacrifices, Churchill and Reynaud were about to realize. To frustrate the new plan there were just two men, Petain and Laval. . . . From Charles VII to Petain, from the Shepherdess of Lorraine to the son of Auvergne, the Englishman hasn't changed...