Word: petain
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Since, under the ominous phrasing of Article I of the armistice, the Government of the Reich has all the rights of an occupying power, Petain cannot help yielding to any German demands which come under this provision, Professor Morize believes...
...former member of the French Ministry of Information, who was working in the employ of the Third Republic just before the armistice, in an interview yesterday said that he believed that the French are altogether loyal to the person of Petain...
...armistice, concluded with Nazi Germany last June 25 by Petain in the naive hope that it was between soldiers and was signed in a sense of honor, means nothing to Hitler. As set forth in Mein Kampf, he is attempting to "inflict exactions progressively and by stages" on the prisoners of the armistice, Professor Morize stated...
...Then 84-year-old Marshal Petain made a surprise move by ousting from power his Foreign Minister, Mussolini's friend...
...four weeks Pierre Etienne Flandin was Foreign Minister-then Petain appointed a new Foreign Minister and Vice Premier acceptable to the Nazis...