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...right arm amputated instead of nursed along, so that he could get back into action a month sooner. Whatever General Gouraud said to General Noguès, it had instant effect. Presently the latter, and also Governor General Georges Le Beau of Algeria, saluted the Pétain Government and announced "an end to hostilities" in North Africa...
...Paso, Marie Térèse Rétain, 83, French-born widow of a Texas physician, said of her brother-in-law, the 84-year-old Premier of France: "He is too old for his present responsibility. He should not have taken...
Women kissed and cried. Strangers embraced. Radios played Dentschland uber Alles (Germany Over All) over & over, over & over repeated the news that Adolf Hitler had received, through Spain's Francisco Franco, Marshal Pétain 's offer to surrender. But in the Champagne country of France, where the yellow dust raised by men and machines lay thick on the trampled vines, Germans and Frenchmen still slaughtered one another. Adolf Hitler ordered no armistice, Pétain no unconditional surrender...
June 16. Russia invades Latvia and Estonia. Reynaud out, Pétain...
...Marshal Pétain...