Word: allier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Vichy area suffered from its worst flood since 1907. Angrily swollen, the Allier River inundated parts of Vichy itself, nearby Puy-de-Dóme, and neighboring farmlands...
...dusk fell in Vichy a solitary figure could be seen walking along the banks of the Allier River evidently in deep thought, hands behind his back. But few recognized General Maxime Weygand, who tonight is still Delegate-General of the Government for French Africa with full powers to act on his own initiative in cases of emergency. Those who did bared their heads, sensing that the slight man, still athletic despite his 74 years, was engaging in a deep moral struggle...
Thus ended the last hope that the France of Henri Philippe Pétain and Jean François Darlan might be saved from Hitler's Europe. Scarcely had the Allier flowed another league than half a dozen collaborationist officials were on their way to North Africa to undo the work that Maxime Weygand had done. Marshal Pétain and Admiral Darlan packed to go to Paris-the Marshal for the first time since the armistice-to meet "a high German personage" and sign away the rest of their country's freedom of action. In Berlin seven...
...chauffeur drove Admiral Darlan down past Paris and Orleans, past Nevers and the country of the milk-white cows, across the demarcation line at Moulins and up the stony Allier to Vichy. A few days later he learned that he would have to drive the Admiral to Paris and its secret environs probably many more times. The Admiral had been named official negotiator with the Germans. But strangely ten days, twelve days, a fortnight passed; and the Admiral was not called to the occupied zone. The Germans were slow about their answer...