Word: tain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tain and I." In his new state of conviction, Admiral Darlan, granting that he had once publicly espoused collaboration with Hitler, said: "When I made that statement I was using the word 'collaboration' in the sense that Marshal Pétain used it-namely, 'economic collaboration.' Owing to the German occupation of France, no other policy was open to us. For, if we had refused such collaboration, all the workers of France would have been put out of their jobs and left to starve. Pétain and I never favored anything but economic collaboration...
...Fighting French-who had not imposed conditions. The Admiral's condition apparently was that the French must fight under "recognized leadership"-meaning himself. Said he: "French soldiers never like to be considered dissidents. They will follow me because I am a man whom Marshal Pétain appointed to take his place. That is the only reason French West Africa came into the new entente under my authority...
Swart, pig-eyed Pierre Laval could have things his own way now in France. With dictatorial powers granted to him by old Marshal Pétain, with the Gestapo by his side in a country now fully under German occupation, he, free of the check-reins of government, felt he could thumb his bulbous nose at public opinion. These were main items on the well-filled Laval calendar...
...tain resounded through reactionary French circles. It was Pétain's voice on the stormy night of June 16, 1940 that informed the French people that their Government would not fight on from North Africa. His large, angular handwriting was on the armistice signed in the Forest of Compiègne. His governmental planning killed the French parliament, tried to impose on France a corporate state complete with antiSemitism...
Victim. The Pétain regime allowed French industry, wealth and manpower to be siphoned into the Third Reich. History will decide whether Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain aided Hitler deliberately or not. Last week the question, like his regime, seemed unimportant...