Word: weygand
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...loss of the war"; France had mobilized 3,000,000 men, England only 200,000; the great strategic error of the campaign occurred when at England's insistence the French Army left its trenches to rush into the Lowlands to the fatal battle of the Meuse; General Weygand had asked the British to strike southward to help close the Artois gap, but after dallying for two days, the British suddenly abandoned Arras and raced northward towards the Channel ports; the British saved four-fifths of their troops at Dunkirk while the French lost half of theirs; at the Somme...
...single dictator. It would probably abolish both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, substituting for them a single assembly of powerful yes-men. Dispatches from Vichy forecast the establishment of a "corporative" state in which, under Marshal Pétain as titular Chief of State, Vice Premier Laval, General Weygand and Minister of the Interior Marquet would form a power-wielding triumvirate. A regime similar to that of Generalissimo Franco, with whom 84-year-old Marshal Pétain was "tremendously impressed," was generally predicted. While Berlin applauded approvingly, French Cabinet members denounced "unwieldy democratic procedure," demanded the reduction...
...Syria, reputedly at the behest of his predecessor, General Maxime Weygand, Commander in Chief Eugene Mittelhausser of France's Army of the Near East likewise first denounced, then honored the Petain armistices. This announcement affected the actions of a dozen French warships, including at least three battleships still with the British at Alexandria. The attitudes of the commanders of these French ships remained unknown, but farther east, French surrender of Djibouti to the Italians gravely endangered British control of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, far gate...
...What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. . . . The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned upon us. Hitler knows he must break us in this island or lose...
...Nosedived, but recovered when Weygand was made Allied Generalissimo...