sentences:  During this period, he repeatedly called for a lengthening of the term of compulsory military service for conscripts from two to three years, to no avail.Pétain accompanied President Lebrun to Belgrade for the funeral of King Alexander, who had been assassinated on 6 October 1934 in Marseille by Vlado Chernozemski, a Macedonian nationalist of Bulgarian origin.Here he met Hermann Göring and the two men reminisced about their experiences in the Great War.