Word: andr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grizzled, stooping, Paris sewer mason André Pierre paused in his work to test an iron grille before the mouth of a small branch drain. The bars came away in his hand. He crawled in, found his lantern shining across packets of freshly printed bank notes. André thought it wise to summon his companion, Marcel Dumesnil. The men understood at once that they had achieved the impossible, gained unchallenged entry to the burglarproof subterranean vaults of the Banque de France. Swiftly they helped themselves to 25 million francs in 1,000-franc notes...
Algiers Today. The political scene in Algiers now has an almost unbroken Gaullist façade, by virtue of purge and new personnel. In the strongly Gaullist Consultative Assembly, which convened in Algiers last fortnight, only a four-man Communist bloc including firebrand André Marty may be a source of dissent...
...André Marty is one of the most colorful figures in present-day Algiers. His past includes leadership of the French Black Sea Fleet Mutiny in 1919, a consequent death sentence (later reprieved), a stormy career in the French Chamber of Deputies, a key command in the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, and a scorching place in the pages of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Of Marty in Spain, Author Hemingway wrote: "One of France's great modern revolutionary leaders . . . a large man, old and heavy . . . [who had] become with time, disappointment, bitterness...
...even André Marty represents no real threat to Algerian unity. De Gaulle now dominates both the controlling Liberation Committee and the advisory Consultative Assembly. Frenchmen had waited long for a national standardbearer. Whether that standard was to be the Tri-color or the Cross of Lorraine did not matter. De Gaulle personified a France rampant, able at least to force its presence on the consciousness of other nations...
...broke clear and sunny, with high-riding white clouds over the English Channel and western Europea fine day for finding the way and losing the enemy. The pattern began with a feint at France, in the form of Marauder and Spitfire attacks on airfields at Tricque-ville and St. André-de-1'Eure. This sucked fighters away from the Lowlands in time for 550 Fortresses and Liberators-the largest U.S. heavy bomber force ever used-to cut for Wilhelm shaven with upwards of 1,200 tons of bombs. With that huge force were U.S. fighter types which made...