Word: tain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frenchmen. On one side will be General Charles de Gaulle and his Algiers Liberation Committee, armed with extensive blueprints for a mid-invasion and postwar French Government. On the other side: none other than that veteran of defeat and collaboration, 87-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. In Vichy's twilight, the tarnished star of Pétain is rising...
Vichy Parry. When Marshal Pétain attempted recently to promulgate his own eleventh-hour "democracy" (TIME, Nov. 29), he proved himself still to be a man to watch. His move was shrewd. Its purpose : to attract the many Frenchmen who still revere his name, the many who fear the wrath of Gaullist and guerrilla alike when liberation comes, the many who have something to lose in a postliberation purge...
Swiss newspapers reported that 100 ex-Senators and ex-Deputies had pledged Pétain full support, had followed their leader in denouncing Germanophile Pierre Laval. In passing, they took a vicious, inaccurate but perhaps effective cut at Charles de Gaulle-they said that he had "deserted the war declaration of 1939 and left France to suffer alone...
...tain's adherents could claim that they, and they alone, were the last-elected representatives of the French people. The old Marshal could claim that he had stayed with France in its blackest hour. However specious such claims may be, the Frenchmen of France will be the judges...
...idea was to replace Laval by a gang of former politicians who would [privately] assure the Germans of their complete loyalty . . . appease public opinion . . . [and] provide a smoother transition should there be a successful U.S. landing. . . . Thus Pétain would no longer be regarded as the man who had wrecked the Republic; he would just have kept it in the twilight because of circumstances until he himself was ready of his own free will to restore democratic institutions...