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Marshal of France is a fine old title that goes back to 1185. In recent years it was tarnished by Pétain, but given new luster by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, who got it posthumously. Last week the Republic picked two more: the late Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque (killed in a 1947 plane crash) and Alphonse Juin...
Look Down in Mercy, Walter Baxter. A strong, tough-grained first novel about the collapse of a British army cap tain in Burma (TIME, March...
...World War I veteran (with the Médaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre), Antoine Pinay was one of the 569 French parliamentarians who voted state powers to Marshal Pétain at Vichy in 1940. But Pinay managed to avoid collaborationist charges by his excellent record as wartime mayor of Saint-Chamond in the Loire. He operates a tannery in the Rhone town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise. It was the conservative look of Premier Pinay which attracted the Gaullist right wing...
Each of the conferences will take place at 8 p.m. in one of the House dining halls, Dudley, or the Union. The speakers will tain for about 15 minutes with an open question period afterwards. The programs are all open to the public...
Died. Henri Philippe Omer Benoit Joseph Pétain, 95, Marshal of France, hero of Verdun in World War I, symbol of French defeatism and defeat in World War II; in Port Joinville, Ile d'Yeu, where he had been since June 29, when his life prison sentence for treason, already commuted from death, was commuted again to confinement in a hospital. To the end, Pétain insisted that, as Premier in 1940, he capitulated to the Nazis and then collaborated with them to "spare" France. "You may judge me according to your conscience," he told the court...