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Died. Admiral Pierre Barjot, 60, naval deputy to NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad, a longtime De Gaulle supporter and World War II Free French leader who figured in the behind-the-scenes maneuvers to compel French North Africa to enter the war on the side of the Allies, later (1956) commanded the French naval forces in the ill-starred attack on Suez; of cancer; in Paris...
...Eden argued later that Britain had acted only on behalf of the U.N. But the U.N. protested the British action 64-5. Vice Admiral Pierre Barjot, deputy allied commander, was more blunt in acknowl edging the allies' true motive: "Soldiers, sailors and aviators," he declared in an order of the day, "at the moment when you were about to enter as conquerors of the principal city of the Suez Canal, a cease-fire was ordered. But your efforts and your courage have wiped out the affronts...
Last week an aspirant to the French Academy of Sciences, Dr. H. Barjot, printed in Paris his suggestion to the Academy of a temperature-differential power plant the inverse of Academician Claude's. Dr. Barjot would generate his power in Polar regions where water under the ice is 32° F. (freezing) or warmer and the air above 20° below zero or colder. He would pump sub-ice water into a surface tank partially filled with butane or some other hydrocarbon of low vaporization point. In the tank the ice water would freeze and release it? comparative heat...
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