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...studying to be a Roman Catholic priest, changed his mind, and decided that he could help the poor more by donning a grocer's apron and bringing down the cost of living. Nine years ago, with $40, he opened a stall behind his house in Landerneau, near Brest, offering staple groceries only 8% above cost. Today some 30 Leclerc-sponsored groceries are operating in Brittany, Normandy and central France, and the movement is spreading over the nation. Recently, a rumor that a Leclerc store was about to be opened in Tours dropped food prices...
Just before the end of World War I. Ensign Holloway reported for duty aboard the destroyer Monaghan, operating out of Brest, France. His first memorable contribution to the war effort: his first show of the Holloway style. "They never told me," he said, "about the lack of space on destroyers. My baggage filled the whole wardroom. I was a very unpopular young officer for that." And through steady performance aboard destroyers, cruisers and battleships and as a staff flag lieutenant in the Navy's lean, between-the-wars years-for eleven years, from 1922 to 1933, he stayed...
...Allies (Britain, France, Japan and the U.S.) during six months (March through August 1918) of diplomatic maneuverings leading up to joint troop landings on Russian soil. Author Kennan makes plain that the initial urge to intervene was based not on the Bolshevik but the German menace. The treaty of Brest-Litovsk took Russia out of the war and left the Germans free to mount what was to be their last massive offensive on the Western Front. The Allies also feared that the port of Murmansk and tens of thousands of tons of war supplies in Archangel and Vladivostok would fall...
Czech Mates. The Brest-Litovsk treaty had stranded a Czechoslovak legion in the Ukraine. Before long, these displaced Czech soldiers were locked in combat with the Reds. Wilson believed that they were fighting against bands of German war prisoners who had rearmed themselves, and when he finally gave the order to intervene on July 6, 1918, the U.S. commitment was mainly limited to "aiding the Czechs against German and Austrian prisoners" and "guarding the military stores at Kola," a village near Murmansk. (There were no military stores at Kola.) When a battalion of U.S. doughboys slogged into combat positions...
...Washington comments were mild compared to what the French were saying. In Brest, French organizations conspicuously boycotted U.S. Fourth of July celebrations in protest. Rumbled irate Defense Minister André Morice: "I don't know if Monsieur Kennedy spends peaceful nights without nightmares, but I do know that [his help to the Algerian rebels] will cost many more innocent lives and help prolong a drama that would have ended long ago if thoughtless friends had weighed their words and acts...