Word: tain
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...stars. It is the minor actors too. Taken together, they give a picture of American life that is varied, sometimes silly, sometimes worse than silly, but that is less silly than people pretend and is very seldom as silly or as dull or as misleading as Pétain...
Despite these preparations-and the boasts of their effectiveness-there was wild confusion when U.S. troops landed. To the surprise of Murphy and Eisenhower, Vichy and Pétain were firmly entrenched in high places. And Darlan was in Algiers, visiting a sick son. Eisenhower then made his famed deal with Darlan, persuaded a furious Giraud to serve under the Admiral, and calmly dismissed the "small differences of ideas" among Frenchmen which these arrangements aggravated...
...lack of principle in business, the domination of trade unions, the collapse of home life. Like others stunned by the French retreat from greatness, Giraud tended to blame industrialization, showed no sympathy for materialistic individualism. His proposals for homespun reforms were in close sympathy with Marshal Pétain's attempts to substitute "Work, Family, Country" for "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity...
...great respect, Giraud differed from Pétain: Giraud hated Germans long before they raped France, and he is forever exhorting his troops to kill Germans. And, like all good Frenchmen of whatever political stripe, he loves France. While in a Nazi prison, he laid down his hope for la patrie in a letter to his seven children...
...shall decide some time in 1943 or 1944," he said, "whether to plant the seeds of World War III. That war will be cer tain if we allow Prussia to rearm either materially or psychologically. That war will be probable in case we double-cross Russia. . . . Unless the Western democracies and Russia come to a satisfactory understanding before the war ends, I very much fear that World War III will be inevitable...