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...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 which...
...boom is still on. Since the first of the year, 1,200 new industrial firms have been formed in the province. In Montreal alone, where new capital is estimated at $60 million, there are 60 new industries, almost as many new plants. Verdun has 37 new plants within its city limits; once-sleepy towns like St. Tite have doubled in population. Quebec's burgeoning industries today embrace paper, textiles, chemicals, shipbuilding, breweries, tobacco. And Quebeckers are ready to supply the technical skills to run the new industries. In preparation for the new day, the province has steadily increased...
General George S. Patton Jr. became the second American in history (first: General John J. Pershing) to be made an honorary citizen of Verdun. He was also made an honorary citizen of Metz, Reims, Chateau Thierry, Epernay, Toul, Sarreguemines, and the city of Luxembourg...
...Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
...tumbril but in a Black Maria, Henri Philippe Pétain, 89, hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and chief of the late Vichy Government, rode to one of history's great trials-his own, for high treason. With him rode the France of 1940 to be judged by the France...