Word: petain
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...week France rang with rumors, mostly inspired, that Germany had called for a showdown with Vichy, had given Marshal Petain the hard choice of complete collaboration-including surrender of bases in Dakar and French North Africa-or complete subjugation...
...generosity of the original British terms, the neck-in-noose Government at Vichy bleated of dishonor, made a brief show of refusing them, then dumped the whole mess into General Dentz's lap. After thanking the Vichy forces who took part in the campaign, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain declared to Syria's civilians: "France is going to suffer an eclipse in the Levant...
Vichy denied there were any German troops in Syria. Marshal Henri Philippe Petain bleated foul blow and declared the hopes of France were with the defending forces...
...from Algeria to Vichy flew the trim-mustached little Commander of the French North African Army, General Maxime Weygand, for conferences with Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and other chiefs of state. Behind closed doors spruce little General Weygand collided with Vichy's chief contact man with the Nazis, sly little Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan. Their collision was heard outside the closed doors and reverberated in diplomatic circles for days...
...dictators by plunging into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church, 83-year-old head of the Carnegie Institute, who offered a million dollars last year for the abduction of Hitler, returned his Legion of Honor ribbon to France, explained to Marshal Henri Petain: ". . . Under your recreant Government it has lost its value." ∙∙ Eighty-four-year-old Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe) had a Cellophane window put in her glove so as not to hide her diamond wrist watch...