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...corps rather than as a single all-Canadian army, as McNaughton planned it. To this charge, Toronto's bitterly anti-King Globe & Mail added another: The Government, having committed itself to the McNaugh ton policy, had to abandon it because of failure to procure the manpower to main tain and reinforce a full Canadian army...
...Temporary Commission for the Organization of a Permanent World League of Cooperating Sovereign Nations Dedicated to the Preservation of International Peace, Prosperity and Happiness. Churchill was furious because the name wasn't in Basic English, but he turned up just the same. So did Badoglio, Umberto, Pétain, Giraud and Franco. Seven newspaper and radio men were allowed to cover the conference-from a launch alongside the battleship...
...submarine commander on this and other patrols Lieut. Lakin sank 15 ships totaling about 25,000 tons. He took three prisonsers - two Germans and a French-trained dog he decided to call Pétain. All three came off the Sainte Marguérite II, which Lieut. Lakin described as "built in Dublin, sold to the French, seized by the Germans, sunk by me." Once Lieut. Lakin was under continuous attack by two destroyers for 38 hours...
...Killer. The Germans put Darnand in power. Late last December, old Marshal Pétain first resisted, then gave in to a Nazi demand that he revamp his government, throw out many of his closest advisers, replace them with stronger men who would not be squeamish about suppressing underground resistance. One of the new appointees was Joseph Darnand, a former carpenter who received full power over French police, gendarmerie, secret service, militia, and the private armies of ultra-collaborationists like Marcel Déat and Jacques Doriot. Also, in the event of Puppet Pierre Laval's absence (which...
Released from prison at World War II's outbreak, he was captured by the Germans in June 1940, was at once repatriated. Then he became active in Pétain's Legion of War Veterans, organized a special shock corps called SOL (Service d'Ordre de la Légion...