Word: andre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...published in 1929, containing Manet watercolor reproductions in color, went for $360-though its Paris price ten years ago was around $30. The collection was a market sensation from Derain to Dufy, from Rouault to Renoir. It was strongest in works by Crowninshield's old friends, French Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac and French Sculptor Charles Despiau. Highest price of the auction was $7,250 for de Segonzac's vigorously painted French riverside with a church in the background, L'Eglise et La Marne, Champigny. Another notable price was $2,100 for Jules Pascin...
...State Department, M. André Philip then proposed, should be told first to achieve unity among its own leaders before applying for any recognition. From reliable American newspaper reports, he could announce that Mr. Cordell Hull did not get along well with Mr. Sumner Welles and did not like Mr. Adolf Berle; Mr. Sumner Welles did not like Mr. Hull and Mr. Berle; and Mr. Berle liked only himself...
...General de Gaulle was named president of a new Committee of National Defense, charged with the study of "general conditions" for fusing and organizing French forces. Other defense committee members: General Giraud; a new Army Chief of Staff, General Gilbert Leyer; a new Navy Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral André Georges Lemonnier; and Air Force Chief of Staff, René Bouscat...
...French Journalist André Rabache: "What you [French] want is one man, one lone man, respected and paternal, who will canalize and coordinate your energies and harness them to the immense task already undertaken by Hitler and Mussolini...
...must not build in Algeria something not in accord with the people of France.' " The two generals set up a seven-man committee to be the central power. Generals Giraud and de Gaulle will preside over it alternately. It has two De Gaullists, René Massigli and André Philip, and two Giraudists, Jean Monnet and General Alphonse-Joseph Georges (seven stars). No. 2 French general at the war's outbreak, who escaped from France last week. The seventh man is General Catroux. He was the intermediary chiefly responsible for bringing De Gaulle and Giraud together...