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...master's coffin covered with earth. Edouard knew that Bonnard loved color more than anything in the world, and he had bought a bunch of carnations to go with the somber wreaths. Tucked into the vivid crimson of Edouard's carnations was a white card. A mon cher Maitre, said the hesitant scrawl, avec mon regret eternel...
...After Ribbentrop had finished with the Finns, he called a meeting of Germans in authoritative posts in Helsinki. Present were the Minister to Finland, Wipert von Blücher, the Gestapo chief and several other responsible officials. The grave-faced, pouch-eyed ex-champagne salesman spoke for an hour on Germany's international situation. She had lost the war, but could and would win the peace, he said...
...remained almost as expressionless through five miles of hostility as he had been through 60 miles of cheers. The difference was that he touched his hat to a hero named Martin Tupper who shouted, "Waterloo! Waterloo!" It was the 17th anniversary of the day Wellington and Blücher led the armies that saved the Empire, Europe, and the civilization that flowered in the long Victorian peace...
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...many-sided, yet singleminded, person-a lover of Siamese cats, a devotee of Montaigne, a diplomat as well as soldier, a great Colonial. He met Henri Giraud while both were serving under the late, great Marshal Lyautey against the Riffs. He learned to call Charles de Gaulle mon cher after he quit the Vichyfrench governorship of Indo-China and joined the Fighting French. Now, under Georges Catroux's amiable pipe smoke, and with the help of his tact, the stubborn leaders agreed to submit their differences to a majority decision of the new Committee of Liberation...