"Pétain's achievement [in resolving the 1917 mutinies] was in fact a greater, far greater miracle than the Marne. ... Immediately after the second war ended, I simply could not praise for his achievements the man who had so often, under the pretext of helping France, placed weapons in Hitler's hands to use against my country. But the years passed, and it seemed to me to be not only a great injustice to Marshal Pétain but a cruel distortion of history to allow the dust of years to settle on what is, I am convinced, a heroic achievement which in the First World War brought victory out of defeat."
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Prime Ministers of FrancePoliticians from FranceAmbassadors of FranceHeads of state from FranceMarshals of France
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Edward Spears, Two Men who saved France: Pétain and De Gaulle (1966), pp. 62, 65
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