Word: andre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Paris André Géraud (Pertinax), known for his information sources in the French Foreign Office, cabled to the Baltimore Sun: "Italy is hastening all kinds of preparations in Libya. She is accumulating war material and building an airdrome in Kufra. She is gathering troops along the borders of French Somaliland. As to Germany, she will have 1,500,000 men under arms about March...
...started publishing pocket-size, paperbound Penguin books. His original capital: ?100. His publishing office: a crypt beneath a Soho church. Tables were tomb tops; storage space was empty tombs. The first six months he sold over a million copies, including such titles as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, André Maurois' Ariel, Mowrer's Germany Puts the Clock Back...
Recently a weary crew of French soldiers, repatriated from Spain, paraded from a Paris railroad station to the Bastille. At their head was a stocky, popeyed member of the Chamber of Deputies, André Marty, who had been away in Spain most of the last two years fighting with Leftist International Brigades...
...torpedo boat Protet was ordered into the Black Sea to protect French nationals from Bolshevist attacks. One day the Protet was ordered to fire on Russian towns to break Red morale. Second Officer Mechanic André Marty persuaded his fellow sailors to refuse to bombard defenseless citizens, threw his superiors in the brig, hoisted a red flag in sympathy with those on shore. For his mutiny André Marty was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor, of which he served three...
...also spent in jail, this time for inciting disobedience in the French Army. France and Russia are still technically allies. But by last week the French Rightists were unwilling to trust highly salable military secrets to such a friend of the U.S.S.R. and enemy of French military discipline as André Marty...