Word: tain
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...Bastille Day approached, the creased, oily, white-tied lawyer who steers Vichy-france toward the New Order made ready to go through a mummery with the old Marshal who is no longer strong enough to steer. Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain would stand at salute while buglers sounded taps before Vichy's memorial to the 1,300,000 Frenchmen who died under the banner of liberté, égalité, fraternité in World...
...over the nation, where celebrations had been forbidden except for the Vichy mockery of Laval and Pétain, Frenchmen observed the day. In Paris thousands marched silently past the Unknown Soldier's tomb. In Lyons processions swarmed through the city singing the Marseillaise. In Marseille a crowd of 5,000 denounced Laval, demonstrated outside the military prison, cheered the U.S. Consulate. Police unlimbered their submachine guns, killed at least five. In Vichy 300 people made a tricolor showing before the Third Republic Memorial...
...Here's an interesting news item that appeared in last night's Presse: [translation] 'Marshal Pétain has modified the text of the Marseillaise. In the future the verse following the refrain: Their blood impure shall bathe our thresholds soon will not be sung. Pétain probably thinks that these words could offend the Germans or the partisans of collaboration. Words to replace those eliminated have not yet been chosen...
...sexagenarian general's rope trick was, however, no illusion. He wanted to help France. But when he reached Vichy he found a France quite unlike anything he had heard about within Königstein's walls. Marshal Pétain embraced him, then gave him a paper to sign, which among other things pledged him never to take up arms against Germany. General Giraud balked. Then Pierre Laval slyly suggested that the general could do France a mighty service by offering to return to prison in exchange for 400,000 married French war prisoners. General Giraud was amenable...
...That Admiral Leahy has a high personal regard for Marshal Pétain...