Word: petain
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...Germans warned that "all classes" of Parisians were subject to reprisals. That night the Germans surprised Parisian saboteurs wrecking Army trucks in a garage. The saboteurs escaped. The next day the Germans shot ten "Communists," the following day twelve other men. France's limp, aged Marshal Henri Philippe Petain took to the air, urged his people to complete submission to Germany for their own good...
Costa Rica found that Vichy Chargé d'Affaires Paul Fisseux and Secretary of Legation Pierre Ducuron renounced Marshal Petain, embraced General de Gaulle...
...blacked-out street in suburban Puteaux a steel cable, taut from curb to curb, overturned a car full of Nazi soldiers, injuring several. While Parisians waited tensely for Schaumburg to make good his threat, in Vichy Marshal Petain's Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu lashed out furiously at the underground Communist Party in both zones of France. Warned he: "[We] will not permit a political group that was most bellicose before the war, but defeatist throughout the war, now to wrap itself in the Tricolor and provoke incidents between the people and occupation troops on the pretext...
...Fontainebleau last week squads of workmen yanked down statues of Lafayette and John Joseph Pershing. And in Vichy Marshal Henri Philippe Petain finally yanked off the veil of diplomatic phrasing in which for months he has swathed the face of French totalitarianism. He broadcast the basic rules of his new French order which he hopes will be profitably wedded to Adolf Hitler's new European order...
Solemnly and secretly the French Cabinet met, announced after a two-hour session that it had discussed the hunting season, also "current affairs." Current affairs presumably included Nazi pressure, the attitude of the U.S. as presented to Petain by Ambassador Leahy just before the meeting. Same day Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles said that the U.S. attitude toward France would be determined by "the manifest effectiveness" with which France defends its territories against the Axis. Two days later Mr. Welles had an answer. France, said spokesmen, would not give up control of her African bases-to which probably should...