Word: boisson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answers were clear, and dictated. A young Polish delegate put in a resolution which flatly declared that in the Soviet Union and in the popular (i.e., Soviet satellite) democracies "all the problems of youth have been solved." The Federation's suave French Communist President Guy de Boisson suggested the resolution be modified to say they were "on the road to solution." Snaoped Soviet Delegate Alexei Klimov: "That may be true in popular democracies. But in the Soviet Union they are solved...
...Passion. The Commissioner had understood: a veteran of France's underground, he knew that silence was the Assembly's rebuke to him, to General de Gaulle, to all administrative committeemen who for any reason had postponed the trials of such Vichymen as Pierre Etienne Flandin, Pierre Boisson. Fighting Frenchmen approached this question with the pain and passion of their long agony; they resented the patent fact that the U.S. and British Governments had interceded for some of the arrested men.* They reacted as Frenchmen have always reacted: the parliamentarians in the Consultative Assembly turned upon the executors...
...Most notable recent arestees: Pierre Etienne Flandin, ex-Foreign Minster under Marshal Pétain; Marcel Peyrouton, ex-Minister of the Interior under Pétain; Pierre Boisson, turncoat Governor General of French West Africa, who fired on a joint British-Free French landing at Dakar...
...Cleanup Mission. To French West Africa would go Pierre Charles Cournarie, named Governor General to succeed ex-Vichyite Pierre Boisson, who had been stanchly supported by the U.S. It was an important appointment, one which Gaullists could hail as a signal victory. As the Gaullist Commissioner of the Cameroons, able, youthful (48) Pierre Cournarie had done a model job. In West Africa, recruiting ground of the famed Senegalese troops, he could do much to clean up Vichy's traces...
...Empire. Charles de Gaulle, as its leader, is the only leader who can fairly claim to represent the French people, pending a free election. De Gaullism's basic strength has beaten Robert Murphy before (TIME, June 14). Its pressure last week forced the resignation of Pierre Boisson, the ex-Vichyite Governor General of French West Africa, who had been stubbornly supported by the U.S. If U.S. policy continues to ignore the fact and the strength of De Gaullism, the U.S. may well earn the enmity of renascent France and Europe...