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...Premier Petain retorted that Winston Churchill was trying to divide France "at a moment when the country suffers...
...President, in a panic, told M. Reynaud he could not do this thing. France was beside the abyss, the danger was immediate and deathly. If Reynaud resigned, democracy in France would be finished; the only alternative was military dictatorship under Weygand or Petain. In the end Reynaud agreed to stay-providing he could purge the Cabinet...
...equal terms she must have the motors of offense -tanks, trucks, motorcycles, airplanes. Charles de Gaulle had not long graduated from elite St.-Cyr when he matriculated into a tougher school -World War I. He served actively in Poland in 1920, inactively as a post war staff officer under Petain, then in Syria, then in Paris. Only three years ago he became a colonel; only three weeks ago -with the advent of Weygand, who knows his worth -he became a general...
Shining symbol of French courage and resistance is aged Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Petain, who not only repelled the Germans at Verdun in 1916 but restored the spirit of victory in the French Forces in the dark days of '17. More than once in the past five troubled years the old man has been talked of as the man to rally a united France. Times had never been worse than they were last week when the legendary defender of France, firm and erect at 83, returned from his Ambassadorship to Spain to become Vice Premier in Paul...
...with the unexciting policy urged by nearly all military experts: to strangle the Germans until in desperation they begin to use their stored materials in some sort of action. There were even rumors that in case Parliament got out of hand President Lebrun might call Marshal Petain, now French Ambassador in Madrid, to form a Cabinet. In every recent French crisis the old warrior, strictly nonpolitical, has been thought of as a possible Savior...