Word: taining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willing Men. The point missed by most critics, says Langer, is that Vichy was not simply Pétain, Darlan and Laval. They got the headlines, but "at all times [were] more than counterbalanced" by other Vichyites, mostly nameless, who were loyal Frenchmen at the least, and at most, zealously pro-Ally. Example: as early as spring 1941 the Deuxième Bureau (intelligence service) secretly agreed to send military reports to the U.S. Army in Washington, right under Vichy Ambassador Henry-Haye's nose. According to U.S. diplomats at Vichy, French officialdom was 85% on the Allied side...
...Last of the Hardys. As "L'Affaire 'Ardy" wore on, public sympathy swung heavily to Hardy's side. Paris' stuffy Court of Assizes (where Pétain and Laval had been tried) was crammed with veterans of the Resistance-and with their memories. Said one René Hardouin, owner of a coffee stall at a Paris railway station, who had sabotaged railroads under Hardy: "I don't know whether he denounced anyone. When they torture you, you give away anything, after a time. But Hardy is a hero, anyway." At the end of the trial...
...Harvard RUTGERS Couison (185) le Garrabrant (195) Dewey (200) lt Thropp (213) Rodis (210 lg Train (190) J. Fisher (185) c Tain (190) Drvaric (195 rg DiLiberti (185) Davis (210) rt Lyman (190) Fioretino (180) re Sowick (190) Goethais (180) qb Burns (180) G. O'Donnell (155) lh Hering (185) Gannon (185) rh Winklereld (176) Moravec (200) rb MoManus...
...Tain't so, Mrs. Locke, honest...
...night before Isorni's last visit Pétain felt stifled and decided that he was suffocating. Obsessed with the idea that he might die in the night with the record not yet set straight, he promptly penned a letter ordering his lawyer to demand a retrial. "I have never accepted my condemnation," he wrote. "I benefited from a grace I did not ask for." Next day he was as healthy as ever, but still sulking. "I was right all along [during the Vichy period]," he told Isorni. "I was more of a resister than anybody...