Word: petain
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...Berlin put on the screws to have him silenced. Unable to send dispatches, he suggested that the French permit him to short-wave his stuff twice a day. When the Nazis moved into France, Dr. Petrovitch fled to Vichy, making talks from towns along the line of retreat. Finally Petain ordered him to shut up, whereupon he headed...
...Axis. If Adolf Hitler fails to take Britain this year, he will have to go east for oil. If he does take Britain, there will be a scramble for Britain's Eastern protectorates and possessions. Last week General Maxime Weygand hurried to Vichy to see Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and discuss, among other things, Syria. Last week, coincident with the German move through Bulgaria, Russia sent troops into the Caucasus, from which point they could either help to protect Turkey or join in the Near Eastern scramble...
While Hitler considers the armistice to be a flexible machine, certain articles, such as the eighth and ninth, safeguard special rights to France in respect to the navy, air force, colonies, and naval or air bases. Petain takes the position of refusing any German demands that go against these provisions...
That incessant demands to turn over portions of their fleet and air force, to give German and Italian troops permission to march through French territory, and otherwise to engage in active military collaboration with the Axis have been refused is due entirely to Petain, Professor Morize continued...
...could read his mind. Is he a mere traitor? Is it personal ambition? Or does he sincerely believe that a German collaboration is better than even a British victory? Here the fact is that Laval is playing the game of the Germans, and in so doing he is fighting Petain...