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Last week Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain aired his gift for soft phrase: "In the past," he said, "France was divided into two camps-Capital and Labor. But today we propose to install harmony and understanding between these groups. ..." His totalitarian meaning was clear. He was busy installing, drawing up plans for a corporative state in the Italian style...
...passed his physical examination for the draft, had been taking flying lessons for three weeks. Vichy announced that the centennial of World War I Premier Georges Clemenceau's birth (Sept. 28, 1841) would be ignored. Same day the burial place chosen by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was announced: the tomb at Douaumont where Verdun's unknown war dead...
...group of students leaving on a visit to Spain, Marshal Pétain gave what may become the new French flag - a banner bearing the fasces and Vichy's slogan, FAMILLE, TRAVAIL, PATRIE (FAMILY, WORK, COUNTRY...
...desk of Marshal Philippe Henri Pétain lay a proposed new constitution. It was described with understatement as calling for "a democratic electorate at the bottom checked by an aristocracy at the top." Actually the electorate was to have a voice as weak as in Germany, Italy or Russia-as can be seen from a diagram of the proposed Governmental framework...
After the Armistice, Marshal Pétain appointed General de Fornel delegate to the German Army of Occupation, but he did not fancy the job and last winter was removed. To Admiral Darlan he wrote that he had "no confidence in the generosity of our conquerors. ... I not only hope for but expect a British victory. Moreover I share this opinion with a great majority of my fellow citizens, whether in the free zone or the occupied zone...