Word: abrial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour, lean, pale Admiral André Marquis and grim Admiral Jean Marie Abrial had been waiting in the dock. The public that jammed the somber, oak-paneled Salle des Congrés at Versailles-where the High Court has been trying Vichy officials-had been buzzing with impatience. Since 2 p.m. the Court had been ready to proceed with Admirals Marquis and Abrial, accused of conspiring to keep the French Navy out of Allied hands in 1942.* But eleven of the 24 deputies on the jury panel had not appeared...
...French point out proudly that Admiral Abrial, having watched the English "safely off," was the last to leave...
...official French report says that Vice Admiral Abrial left June 4, 1940; the British official report says that Major General Alexander left June 3. But because the evacuation of Dunkirk was primarily a British show, Alexander seems most likely to receive history's accolade...
...last week was certainly not the Allies' hour. Though two French divisions and one British fought bravely to the end at Dunkirk, and Vice Admiral Jean Marie Charles Abrial of the French Navy jauntily puffed his pipe and stayed ashore until the last launch, the hour was Adolf Hitler's and he made the most...
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