Word: rapha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Austria's Kurt von Schuschnigg and Czecho-Slovakia's Eduard Benes. Like them he tried to make little concessions, apparently unwilling to believe that the only concession that ever satisfies Adolf Hitler is capitulation. The old Marshal forced the resignation from his Cabinet of Minister of Justice Raphaël Alibert, one of his closest advisers and the man who brought about the downfall of Pierre Laval. He appointed 40 "men of thought and action" to correlate French political activity into a single party. That was not nearly enough...
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