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...February 1916, in the second year of World War I, the German Army launched its attack on the fortress of Verdun. Although forced to yield ground, 59-year-old General Henri Philippe Pétain held Verdun and the German drive collapsed. Last week Germany found Marshal Pétain, now 84, the same stubborn tactician...
...Henri Philippe Pétain stood in the same position: squarely in the path of Germany's ambition. When Super-Politician Adolf Hitler dictated his-armistice terms to a shattered France last June he undoubtedly planned to proceed by the rule he laid down in Mein Kampf: "A shrewd conqueror will always enforce his exactions on the conquered only by stages. Then he may expect that a people who have lost all strength of character will not find in any of these acts of oppression . . . sufficient grounds for taking up arms again." This time, however, Adolf Hitler found...
...character. In eight months the Marshal has achieved a good deal of success. His people see him as the personification of patriarchical strength of character. The Church, both Catholic and Protestant, supports him for his endorsement of religion. And last week Chief of State Henri Philippe Pétain felt strong enough to stand against the Germans again as he had done 25 years ago at Verdun...
...German authorities fined the occupied city of Bordeaux 2,000,000 francs for an attack on a soldier by a civilian. From Paris, capital of the collaborators, the radio broadcast bitter attacks on Marshal Pétain's entourage. In Paris Marcel Déat, the totalitarian-minded history professor and editor of L'Oeuvre, announced the formation of the collaborators' own single party. Called the Rassemblement National Populaire (National Popular Assembly), it is the newest incarnation of the Parti Unique which Déat and Fascist Gaston Bergery plugged in Vichy last summer. It aims...
...sooner arrived than he stated flatly: "I affirm that the French Fleet is absolutely and will remain under complete French jurisdiction and that it will defend the Empire against any challenge whatsoever." But Admiral Darlan had authority to agree to Laval's reinstatement provided Marshal Pétain retained supreme power...