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...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...
...Marshal of France," snapped Henri Philippe Pétain at his judges more than a year ago, "begs nobody's mercy!" A solitary prisoner now in France's Ile d'Yeu Fortress, ten miles offshore in the Bay of Biscay, the 90-year-old ex-hero of Verdun is still as crusty as ever. In rugged health he spends his days pondering in justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole...
...Chief of State makes his own bed daily, cleans his room by sprinkling disinfectant and wielding a broom in wide circles. Once a day his wife, who lives in a hotel some 15 minutes distant, visits him, bringing his washing and mending. Pétain carefully folds his own shirts and stores them away in a closet. The rest of the time he spends studying English, reading or strolling, carefully guarded, in the courtyard. Occasionally he is permitted a visit from his attorney, Jacques Isorni...
...clapboard torture house, built by the Japs on the campus of Shanghai American School, was gone; its victims' screams no longer echoed down Avenue Pétain in the city's old French quarter. But over the Georgian school buildings flew a motheaten U.S. flag; S.A.S. was in session again...