Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Vichy, seat of the Government, Vice Premier Pierre Laval told the hastily summoned Chamber of Deputies: "I bring you, not the conviction, but the certainty, that if you want an honorable peace you must give Marshal Pétain what he wants...
...what the old Constitution sought to prevent-invest supreme authority in a 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...
...accident? Well, Mussolini and Balbo didn't agree about Italy's friendship with Germany; that's why Balbo was sent away to Libya. So if it was an accident, was it perhaps the sort of accident that happened to the German Field Marshal von Fritsch who disagreed with Hitler? You can't tell with dictators...
...Paris, Serge Lifar, director of the Paris Opera Ballet, whose "music-less" ballet Icarus created a teaspoon stir in the art world five years ago, revealed that Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goring had invited him to stage a production in Berlin...
Over a fort in Italian Libya a British plane circled, dropped, not a bomb, but a note to the commanding officer, from Sir Arthur Longmore, Commander of the R. A. F. in the Middle East. The note expressed regret at the death of his onetime friend, Air Marshal Italo Balbo (TIME, July...