Word: tain
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...tone of cold condescension often froze into icy contempt. His was the old, impenetrably murky defense about the double game. Why had he supported Munich? "Because we were not ready." Why had he accepted the Foreign Affairs portfolio in Pétain's Cabinet? "I intended . . . to retain my sympathies for the Allies and to help them secretly...
...this the prosecution responded by producing Pétain's letter notifying Berlin of the appointment of Flandin-" . . . whose name alone will appear to be a guarantee of sincerity." Also submitted as damning evidence were newspaper articles written by Flandin during the occupation, among them a Paris Soir piece headlined: M. FLANDIN DECLARES FRANCE WAS PUSHED INTO WAR BY THE ENGLISH, PLUTOCRATS, JEWS AND MASONS...
...night last week Andrei Vishinsky, Russian-Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, strode into the paneled, tapestried chamber of Paris' Palace of Justice where Pétain and Laval were tried for treason. For two hours he spoke on "Principles of Soviet Law" to a group of 200 French Resistance lawyers and their families...
Henri-Philippe Pétain turned 90 in his island prison off the Brittany coast, looked so fit to his doctor that he was judged capable of attaining...
...Pacifist Giono was soon released from jail and allowed to go on with his writing. According to some, he became a collaborationist, a spokesman for Vichy and Pétain. According to others he worked with the Underground. Many Frenchmen regard his politics as still suspect. Says he in Blue Boy (1932): "There is no glory in being French. There is only one glory: in being alive...