Word: taining
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That evening old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain held a Cabinet meeting to consider the arrangements Pierre Laval had made. Laval appeared tired and anxious. Everything had been prepared, he explained. Hitler and Ribbentrop would be present at the ceremony in Les Invalides. Marshal Petain, as Chief of State, would also attend, as of course would he, Laval, as Foreign Minister. There would be a French guard of honor, as well as a German one. The ceremony would seal the rapprochement between France and Germany...
...Foreign Affairs gave him authority to deal with Germany, insisted that Petain make the trip. Minister of the Interior Marcel B. Peyrouton, who recently created a Groupe de Protection for the Marshal after the pattern of Hitler's Elite Guard, asked for a specific guarantee of Pétain's liberty after he arrived in occupied France...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week made his first move to restore U. S. diplomats to vacant listening posts. He offered the post of Ambassador to France to General John J. Pershing. The 80-year-old general, World War I friend of Marshal Pétain, declined because of his health, on the advice of U. S. Army physicians. Then the President chose another ex-officer as Ambassador to the old Marshal: one of his ablest public servants, cool, steady Admiral William Daniel Leahy, Governor of Puerto Rico. Paunchless, wind-seared Admiral Leahy, whose 65 years look like 50, accepted. His administration...
...Dispatched to Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, head of France's Vichy Government, a note believed to contain a warning that French territories in this hemisphere would be taken under U. S. protectorship if Vichy and Germany moved against the status quo of those territories...
...next splendid stop was at a French village near Tours. Gracious as King Henry I of Brabant receiving his fractious vassals in Lohengrin, Herr Hitler did honor to the old fighter Henri Philippe Pétain and his Vice Premier Laval. The Marshal, dressed in a horizon-blue uniform like the one he wore when he was the victor of Verdun (when Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian corporal), was permitted to review some German troops, neat as an iron fence. The Führer clasped the old man's hand and said: "I am sure you did not want...