Word: taine
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Fortnight ago General Charles de Gaulle's government ordered Marshal Pétain (who is now in Germany) arrested in absentia. French prisons bulged with Vichy big & little officials awaiting trials...
...F.F.I, court-martial they had pleaded innocent. They had believed Marshal Pétain, Henriot and others who had once been the Government of France. They had been told that the Maquis were bandits, foreigners, enemies of France. Their defense counsel had begged postponement of their trial until passions cooled. But the court had ruled that the six young men had borne arms against France and therefore must...
...firing squad raised its guns. None could deny that the six young men faced death well. Not one slumped, not one turned his face away. The youngest, who had quit Grenoble University to answer Pétain's call for young Milice, stared at the sky, just above the heads of the firing squad. The rain fell...
...clock, six automobiles whisked through the city of Vichy, sped northeastward, convoyed by German Army motorcycles. Among the passengers: Pétain, his wife, his personal physician...
...clock, friends of Pétain were passing out circulars, with the Marshal's farewell message...