Word: state
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Some Reds are just unfortunate tools. The Government has got to face the issue as a matter of war strategy. . . . Working men and women in Scottish industry, don't you allow any minority to create a condition to force the State to take action it doesn't want to take [i.e., suppress the British Communist Party]. . . . I am not going to be a party to punishing 99 per cent to stop one per cent, but if there are some subversive elements trying to interfere with the war effort, I will deal with that one per cent...
...Government of Germany learned last week what the people of France have gradually learned since the Armistice of June 22: that France's Chief of State is no stooge of Adolf Hitler, of Pierre Laval, or of anybody else. Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain is old, crotchety, painstaking, slow. He is also honorable, patriotic and, when he takes the advice of a few trusted friends, often a clever political tactician. Last week his political tactics seemed about to get France into big, bad trouble with her conquerors...
...removing from the Vichy Government any threats to the continued "collaboration" of France and Germany. In Vichy he saw Marshal Pétain, then hurried to nearby Châteldon to hear Laval's story of his break with Pétain. At Abetz' insistence, Chief of State Pétain received Citizen Laval and listened to his justification of the conduct, still unrevealed, which led to his dismissal. At Abetz' insistence, Chief of State Pétain permitted Citizen Laval to leave unoccupied France and take up his residence in Paris. But the old Marshal flatly...
These two were among the bitterest opponents of Laval in the Pétain Cabinet. Other non-politicians whom the old Marshal came to trust were War Minister General Charles Huntziger, Navy Minister Admiral Jean Darlan, Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council Paul Baudouin, whom Laval ousted as Foreign Minister to take over the job himself. In this group, and in the person of General Maxime Weygand in Africa, centred the opposition to "collaboration" of a kind that would mean utter capitulation. Their strongest cards were the remainder of the French Navy and Weygand's Army...
Under the benign auspices of Theodore Roosevelt and his Secretary of State John Hay, Panama proclaimed a republican constitution in 1904. Last Oct. 1, a determined young man named Arnulfo Arias swore an oath as President of Panama faithfully to observe that constitution. Seventeen days later he presented Panama's unicameral Legislature with a proposed Bill of Reforms to remake the constitution. On Nov. 22 the Legislature approved the Bill. Last week, in a plebiscite, the people voted it into effect. Since the voting officials distributed "yes" and "no" votes to be marked, and since Government watchers packed every...