Word: taining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Prince with a bow to the Marshal: "Pátain prevented many executions; had it not been for him, political depor tees would have numbered 2,000,000 instead...
...moment the spotlight shifted from the treason trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Pátain to his wife and the wife of Pierre Laval. In Paris' Cour de Justice, the two women, once among the French elite, now accused of "intelligence with the enemy," answered questions in a preliminary interrogation...
Infant Care & Agriculture. Said Madame Pátain: she had not mixed in the affairs of Vichy, had not even shared her husband's hotel there. In Spain she had not been friendly with Seãora France since the Seãora had not seen fit to return her first ceremonial visit. During the German occupation she had busied herself with good works, such as preparing lay ettes for indigent infants, bandage-rolling in hospitals open to all classes...
From General Alphonse Pierre Juin, currently commanding French occupation forces in Germany, came a telling letter. Pátain had telegraphed secret orders to North Africa, countermanding his published Instructions to resist the Allied landings...
Said De Brinon: Pátain favored collaboration. Said Darnand : Pátain had authorized his acts. The Marshal flushed red with rage, stalked out of the court to his cell...