Word: chalons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allen was arrested March 13 while snooping in Occupied France. He was sentenced to four months instead of the customary two weeks to a month, and put in an ancient military prison at Chalon-sur-Saone. Though in Vichy he had been given special facilities, talked with Weygand and Pétain, circulated freely as far as North Africa, the Vichy Government, to show the Nazis he was no friend of theirs, now also put out a warrant for his arrest, on grounds of stealing documents "affecting the security of the French State." (They were really photostat copies of police...