Word: petain
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...France, which remembers well the great May Days of the Popular Front, heard Marshal Petain announce over the radio that his purpose was to end the class struggle. A few parades were staged. In honor of the day-which was also the Marshal's Saint's Day-the Vichy Government freed 700 pacifists, said it would "replace" them in prison with Communists and food speculators...
Conquered France today is a gigantic sounding board for the shout of rumor, the whisper of fact. Last week it reverberated to an intensified campaign for collaboration with Germany. To Paris to talk with the Germans went Marshal Petain's "heir," Admiral Jean François Darlan, who then made a quick and mysterious trip to Beauvais (near which last year he met with Adolf Hitler) before going home to report to his aged chief...
...Western Europe, Germany marched toward bloodless victories. With no fear of British reprisals, Unoccupied France turned over a sizable part of its shipping to help get the Germans to North Africa (see p. 23). Adolf Hitler sent a note to Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain demanding the reinstatement of Pierre Laval in the Cabinet. Against U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell's warning that the U.S. would do its utmost for Britain, Spain's newspapers started an Axis-inspired campaign against Portugal, hinted that Spain would soon join the Axis. Object: Gibraltar...
...full of slackers and saboteurs (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940), but his previous record was superb. A graduate of St. Cyr, French equivalent of West Point, he had served on Marshal Foch's staff in World War I, was twice cited for bravery. He served in 1926 under Marshal Petain against famed Rebel Abdel-Krim in French Morocco. He was for a while Chief of Staff under General Maxime Weygand, was Vice President of the Supreme War Council, a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor...
...Ministry of Justice spokesman denied that Marshal Petain's new decree was dictated by religious considerations, insisted it was one more effort to halt the downward spiral of France's birth rate...