Word: taine
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Laval lost his temper. He upbraided the Marshal for his stubbornness and Peyrouton for his suspicion. He demanded that in the future his powers be precisely defined, that he be given executive authority, with Pétain as a figurehead. Then he stalked from the meeting...
...tain sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler, who interrupted his trip. Then communications between Vichy and the outside world were severed for 24 hours...
When they were resumed, a wild story burned the wires. The affaire de L'Aiglon had been a plot to seize or assassinate Marshal Pétain while he was in occupied France, whereupon Pierre Laval would have assumed the Office of Chief of State, set up a Fascist regime under the wing of Nazi Germany, and declared war on Great Britain. Whether or not this story had any substance of truth, Pierre Laval immediately became a pariah to the Government of France. Marshal Pétain broadcast a curt, messianic message to his people...
...Public Instruction Georges Ripert was absent. Laval's powers over press, radio and cinema went by decree to Under Secretary Paul Baudouin. Minister of the Interior Marcel Peyrouton, who is also Chief of Police, emerged as the strong man of the weak men of France. Premier Pétain announced his intention of creating a Consultative Assembly to be composed of delegates from the provinces...
...casket containing the Eaglet arrived in Paris and was placed in Les Invalides. But neither Hitler nor Pétain was present. Some French newspapers neglected even to record the fact...