Word: brunots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Monterey docked at Samoa en route to Tahiti, she said, a middle-aged English-looking Frenchman named General Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard Brunot came aboard with Mme. Brunot and the General's aide, one Captain Frataux. On the trip to Tahiti, Joan Fontaine found that the Captain was as gallant as French officers are supposed to be, while the Brunots were extremely retiring. The General said nothing of his purposes and few of the Monterey's passengers so much as knew his rank...
...morning of June 6, when the Monterey entered the sunny harbor of Papeete, Tahiti, General Brunot appeared on deck in the blue uniform of France. An antiquated French airplane droned over the ship and dipped its wings. At the dock Joan Fontaine saw General Brunot received by two khaki-clad companies of native troops. A band broke the tropic stillness with the Marseillaise and Joan Fontaine, thinking of the France that was, could not help crying...
Later in the day Tahiti's word-of-mouth "coconut radio" carried conflicting rumors that General Brunot had been assassinated, that he had effected some sort of coup, that somewhere among the swaying palms there had been general slaughter...