Word: tain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs try to vichyate the Filipinos, a counterpart of Vichy's Marshal Pétain might be found. There is, for instance, 72-year-old General Emilio Aguinaldo, national Filipino hero who led a bloody insurrection against the U.S. army of occupation in 1899. Erect, small, Prussian-haired General Aguinaldo bears no love for Manuel Quezon, has more than once had reason to accuse his people of ingratitude. Said General Aguinaldo, just a year ago: "The Japanese have great respect for the Filipino people and much sympathy...
...battle line toward the still-sleeping village of St. Pierre, a lone bristle-bearded Breton sailor ran down to the quai to greet it, his wooden sabots clattering and slipping on the icy streets. In the still morning air the whole harbor could hear him bilingually swearing: "Pétain, le sacre bleu cochon, le old goat!" . . . With trembling hands he lashed the first corvette line to a bollard. "Vive De Gaulle," he shouted. "At last I can say it. Vive De Gaulle...
...Bournat had kept the islands alive since France fell, dispensing a $60,000 monthly credit wangled from frozen Vichy funds to feed the one-third of the islands' population on chÓmage (relief). But faithful to Vichy and Marshal Pétain, De Bournat had defied the pro-De Gaulle Societe des Anciens Combattants, amused or confused the islands' totally Aryan population by faithfully publishing Vichy's anti-Jewish decrees, tried to organize a Vichy "Patriotic Youth" movement while 150 of St. Pierre's sons were slipping away to join De Gaullists in Canada. Crowds...
...noised abroad that Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain had resigned, leaving Vichy to wily Vice Premier Jean François Darlan, that German troops were already sluicing through France toward Spain, northwest Africa, and the western relief of Axis Libyan forces...
...represented "the marked will of the French Government to engage itself ever more constantly on a path of durable and fruitful European collaboration." As the Marshal stepped down from his car in the heavily guarded Vichy station, he was greeted by a solitary cry of "Vive Pétain...