Word: clermont-ferrand
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...Munich, dumping a record bomb load of 3,360 tons. On the day before that, U.S. day-flying bombers from Britain had attacked Brunswick. On the day after, the U.S. heavies struck again, this time at Augsburg and Ulm. After dark the R.A.F. swarmed out again, to Amiens and Clermont-Ferrand. Next day the U.S. punch fell on Vienna; at night the R.A.F. attacked Sofia...
...Madame Absalom, who kept the yarn shop, avidly scanned the local press of Clermont-Ferrand every day "in gleeful anticipation of the demise of her 'ex,' as she called him. . . ." He suffered from rheumatism and a facial tic which she could imitate to perfection...
...commitments to the Nazis, the Nazis were permitting Vichy to build an air force for defense of the French Empire. (Under the Armistice terms, all air equipment in the Unoccupied Zone was to be dismantled.) One grey rainy day old Marshal Pétain went to Aulnat airfield, near Clermont-Ferrand (France's Burbank-Akitin...
...Africa was a goal not to be sneered at. Perhaps British proximity might prove to be a beneficial persuasion on General Maxime Weygand. The Vichy censors decided it was about time to let French newspapers pay a little attention to the Italian situation in Africa. The paper Montague of Clermont-Ferrand went so far as to say: "The word 'retreat' should now be used...
Meanwhile at Clermont-Ferrand a military tribunal tried, stripped of rank and sentenced to death General Charles de Gaulle, for desertion, flight, conspiring with a foreign power, inciting French soldiers to enter service with a foreign power, and engaging in propaganda against France. Safe in his dingy suite of offices on London's Victoria Embankment, where he is trying to rally free Frenchmen to the cause of liberation, General de Gaulle took his death sentence lightly, declared: "I shall have a settlement of accounts with the men of Vichy after the British victory. I consider this...