Word: brest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their screams from blending with the shrieks and moans of the endless "dressing hours," do not goose step, wave flags, or cry for more and better wars. Neither are they yellow. I speak with an authority acquired in 18 months spent in such widely separated military hospitals as Royat, Brest, Fox Hills, Cape May, Camp Dodge and Fort Sheridan. Edith's contacts with war-shattered wrecks must have been more extensive than mine...
Sober French trade union leaders and the property-hugging French proletariat were at their wits' end last week as obstreperous Communists and wharf scum at the naval ports of Brest and Toulon staged a bloody dress-rehearsal of revolution...
...Brest bold Sub-Prefect Jacques Henry risked lynching by Red mobsters who had torn down the tricolor of France from his Sub-Prefecture and hoisted a Communist banner, to the vast delight of Moscow (see p. 24). While rioters surged around him singing the Internationale, M. Henry grabbed the lanyards and began hauling down the Red flag amid a hail of rivets, bolts and paving stones, one of which bloodied his head. Shouting "Vive la Patrie!", injured Sub-Prefect Henry not only shoved and bluffed his way out of the crowd without giving up the Red flag which...
Next day Labor Syndicate Head Berthelot, representing most of the 6,000 workers at the Brest Naval Arsenal, angrily announced: "We accuse extremists, Communists, of provoking this trouble! We accuse especially the professional agitator Balliere!" After going to work again, the 6,000 proletarians at Brest Arsenal showed where they stood by abruptly stopping work for an hour in a "folded arms protest" against the 10% wage cut decreed for state employees by budget-balancing Premier Pierre Laval (TIME, July...
...promised papers last week. German secrets possessed by Britain must be concealed from France, her Wartime ally with all that that implied. Soon the official French attitude was made known by Minister of Marine François Piétri as the French Navy deployed before him in maneuvers at Brest. Said he: "This may cause us to doubt not the friendship of Britain but her pru-dence...