Word: cots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prisoners. Earlier indictments in absentia had been asked for former Air Minister Pierre Cot and for Guy La Chambre, who succeeded him. Peppery little M. Cot was still "somewhere in the United States."* M. La Chambre, at least outwardly unconcerned, by week's end had gone to Riom to face trial. Shocking to Frenchmen who have for years been taxed to the eyes for armaments was the lack of planes when war broke loose. In returning from the U. S., M. La Chambre either believed he could shift the blame on his predecessors or was making a gallant gesture...
...general, has a shameful political job to perform. Revolutions and great defeats demand their scapegoats. Elected scapegoats, apparently in cold blood, were Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Premiers Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud and Leon Blum, onetime Ministers Yvon Delbos, Georges Mandel, Cesar Campinchi, Guy La Chambre, Pierre Cot, and their direct & indirect collaborators. The men of Vichy apparently still had a little too much conscience to take the scapegoats' lives. The maximum sentence the Riom court may impose is life imprisonment. Although there is no appeal, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, as Chief of State, has reserved for himself...
...Pierre Cot, and with them that long outspoken foe of fascism, Mile. Eve Curie. On another refugee ship went Mme. Genevieve Tabouis, longtime No. 1 Paris journalistic Hitler-baiter...
...fireplace in the pine-paneled living room. Midweek came before Dr. Mclntire permitted the President to disport his 6 ft. 2 in. in the buoyant, tepid waters of the glass-roofed pool. Canada's plumpish Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King lay in swimming trunks on a cot while Mr. Roosevelt splashed about...