Word: andre
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Berbers piled their guns on the ground in front of the French. "You command us," they wailed. "We are miserable wretches." By the time General André Franchi arrived to accept their submission. 10,000 tribesmen and 5,000 Arab townsfolk were waiting to submit...
...French commander of the Casablanca area, General André Franchi, broadcast an appeal for calm. "I am a man who knows and loves the Moroccan soul," he said, "but I have the imperative duty of maintaining order." Franchi ordered his troops to fire if disobeyed, then added: "I ask God to avoid this at all costs...
...finest duos in tempera and text to come off your press: Ben Shahn's subdued, intense cover portrait, and the continuing spirit of that portrait carried on by your André Malraux feature...
Died. Constant Victor André Mornet, 85, Procureur Général of France, prosecutor in the trials of Dutch dancing-girl-turned-spy Mata Hari (1917), Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval (1945); in Nohant-Vic, France. Called by his government to prosecute Pétain, Mornet summed up in a stormy five-hour speech, concluded: "I would not be doing my duty if I did not insist on the capital penalty...
This is the place to which this tormented, restless man of intellect and of action has come in his quest through the godless pantheon of the Enlightenment. To André Malraux, man's hope, often betrayed, always risen again, is still in man. It is a gallant position, but perilously exposed, and Malraux seems to know it. "The next century's task will be." says Malraux, "to rediscover its gods...