Word: petain
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...unfortunate that General de Gaulle, who would not yield to Naziism in World War II, has chosen to compromise with the Algerian Communist rebels. He has thus placed himself in the same class with Petain and the Vichy defeatists...
Major Force. S.A.O. makes no secret of its plans for a "decentralized and corporative" metropolitan France, should it ever come to power. Its political ideas echo those of the discredited Vichy regime of Marshal Petain in World War II. In the prevailing gloom, even former "moderate" Europeans in Algiers accept the S.A.O. line. Said one: "S.A.O. next year will be a major force not only in France but in Europe. It will be Europe's sole effective anti-Communist organization...
...chief of staff who rose through 40 years in naval rank to Chief of Naval Operations (1937-39), went to work after retirement as Ambassador to Vichy-France; of a stroke; in Washington. Shaggy-browed, coolly logical Bill Leahy proved his diplomacy by gaining the confidence of old Marshal Petain, Nazi-approved boss of conquered France, and helping to neutralize France. Recalled to the U.S. in 1942, Old Sea Dog Leahy stayed close to F.D.R.. advised him without unduly influencing him (he took exception to some of the concessions to Russia at the Yalta Conference but was overruled), remained...
...Weygand looked like a little rat in a trap -caught. Petain looked like a great old image. Darlan trying to show the bluff sailor. And the politicians snatching at everything. I thought they were a hopeless...
Marshal Pétain. "In spite of everything, I am convinced that in other times Marshal Petain would not have consented to don the purple in the midst of national surrender . . . But alas! under the outer shell, the years had gnawed his character. Age was delivering him over to the maneuvers of people who were clever at covering themselves with his majestic lassitude. Old age is a shipwreck...