Word: tain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...megalomaniac strain of all dictators. "In 1917," rumbled he, "I put an end to mutinies. In 1940 I put a period to our rout. Today it is from you yourselves that I want to save you." There was nothing unusual about the rules that Marshal Pétain announced-they came right out of the common totalitarian rule book...
...Marshal Pétain's speech also eloquently emphasized, by inference, what has long been suspected-that French totalitarianism is meeting much more open internal resistance than Hitler or Mussolini has ever had to face. Last week some of that resistance led to violence. The Marshal railed against Big Business opposition to Vichy, but a vastly more general discontent could be heard between his lines...
...Vichy last week grey old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and his North African commander General Maxime Weygand, a great little judge of horseflesh, drove up the river and out to the races. Perhaps this was intended to stifle persistent rumors of a rift between General Weygand and the Vichy Government, for otherwise it did not seem like the week for Vichymen to go frivoling. Adolf Hitler was bearing down harder than ever for outright Nazi-Vichy military collaboration in North Africa...
...worried about the formation of a volunteer French legion to fight Russia, headed by Eugène Deloncle, leader of the prewar, monarchist Cagoulards ("hooded men"-TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Such a force might be useful to the Nazis if they wished to foment an anti-Pétain revolution. Last week Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan forbade the legion to bear arms until it had crossed France's borders en route to Russia...
...arrested March 13 while snooping in Occupied France. He was sentenced to four months instead of the customary two weeks to a month, and put in an ancient military prison at Chalon-sur-Saone. Though in Vichy he had been given special facilities, talked with Weygand and Pétain, circulated freely as far as North Africa, the Vichy Government, to show the Nazis he was no friend of theirs, now also put out a warrant for his arrest, on grounds of stealing documents "affecting the security of the French State." (They were really photostat copies of police reports...