Word: tain
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Mindful of historic precedent, old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, Chief of State, showed no eagerness last week to see German troops withdrawn once more from Paris. Instead, he worked overtime at Vichy, provisional capital of unoccupied France, to persuade the German-French Armistice Commission to fulfill its promise, let his Government settle down in Paris under Nazi protection...
...member of the Commission, to negotiate with General Alfred von Vollard Bockelberg, the German military governor of the Paris region. Nazis were in no hurry to arrange the transfer. For one thing, they could still detect a faint, sweet odor of republicanism in Pétain's authoritarian regime. Then there was the problem of finding quarters: most of the old Government's buildings in Paris and Versailles were occupied by Germans...
...Price. Frenchmen now had to pay for their lack of vigilance, generosity, courage; for electing politicians who traded their principles to maintain themselves in power. Frenchmen last week knew that Marshal Pétain was a figurehead, that their real leader was Pierre Laval, one man who thought he could have saved France from Hitler-if France had been willing to pay his price...
After Sedan, Premier Reynaud was desperate. He called in Weygand, who said the battle was lost. Baudouin persuaded him to call in Pétain, who was mortally afraid of Communism if the war dragged on with France losing. Baudouin switched his allegiance from Reynaud to Petain, whose closest adviser was Pierre Laval. These men made peace and took over France with the tacit consent of Hitler-moved by what ultimate motives only history can judge...
...occupied Poland last week the Germans went into high gear with a Nazi propaganda campaign designed to persuade the Polish people to abandon all forms of passive resistance, "follow the wise example of France." Looking for a Polish Pétain, the Nazis approached the onetime Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Polish Sejm, tenacious and long-suffering Prince Janusz Radziwill. The landed, many-branched, internationally well-connected Radziwills, who trace their ancestry back to 15th-Century Ostyk Radziwill, are the Roosevelts of Poland...