Word: tain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...check with French police showed that the tipsters knew what they were talking about. During the war Jacques de Bernonville was propaganda director under Marshal Henri Pétain and a director of operations against the French underground. Furthermore, the French police reported, he had caused the deaths of Frenchmen and other Allied soldiers "probably including Canadians from the Royal Canadian Air Force." That settled Count de Bernonville's appeal for Canadian citizenship. Ottawa ordered him out of the country...
...Olympic games would be the last. It was not simply the old sneering gossip about which amateur got paid how much, or the sometimes unequal struggle between sportsmanship and competitive spirit, intensified by national rivalries. There was a deeper and grimmer game afoot: for some "iron cur tain" countries, like Rumania and Yugoslavia, competition had become almost a matter of life & death; some athletes were nervous about going back home if they didn't perform up to snuff. Soviet Russia sent no competitors, only a vigilante squad of ten observers...
Marshal Henri Pétain of Verdun and Vichy, now serving a life term for collaborating with the Nazis, was reported looking poorly. But when a Chamber of Deputies committee tried to question the old soldier about his War II activities, he got his back up. "I know nothing," he gruffed. "I am 92 years old. If you want to question me on the war of 1914-18, I can answer you. I won that...
...other extreme rightists were arrested, among them Major Georges Loustaneau-Lacau, a former Pétain aide who turned up at Pétain's treason trial to defend the Marshal-even though Pétain had not lifted a finger when the Nazis put Loustaneau-Lacau in a concentration camp. Another of the arrested plotters was General Maurice Guillaudot, who was about to go to a banquet when police came for him. Said he: "I understand what is involved. Just let me go to my banquet." The French police, who pride themselves on being raisonnable...
...thickheadedness, had made it not only possible but also profitable for the U.S. to work with Vichy, says Langer. Wooing the French, they had left a large part of France "unoccupied," left the French fleet and French colonies in French hands. Even such a timorous lot as Pétain & Co. could sometimes get surprising results by a little show of nerve...