Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Peyrouton looked more like the strong man of the Cabinet. Onetime colonial administrator in Morocco and Tunisia, onetime Ambassador to Argentina, he is a politician who has kept out of the mainstream of politics. As Chief of Police, he has fired 57 out of 94 prefects, 230 out of 261 sub-prefects, appointed Army and Navy officers in their places. With the Foreign Ministry under Pierre Étienne Flandin, whom Petain does not trust either, the Marshal must have felt the need of a pair of shoulders as husky as M. Peyrouton...