Word: croix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sidi Lamine was not the only distinguished African visitor to Paris in recent weeks. He had been preceded by Sidi Mohamed Ben Youseff, Sultan of Morocco, who had received the Croix de la Liberation (his son Prince Moulay Hassan was also decorated-see cut) and was shown a hydroelectric dam in the Auvergne Mountains. Behind these comings & goings was potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria...
...Laude: Charles Fowled Adamson, Harold Francis 1a Croix, Jr. Paul Schneider, Stephen Bruce Smart, Jr., and William Edward Sullivan...
...built a church at St. Stephen, just across the narrow St. Croix River from Calais. His congregation included people from both sides of the border. When the War of 1812 broke out, he called a meet ing of Americans and Canadians. "I've christened you and married you and buried you," he told them. "We've been like one family...
...fought in front of his men, was thrice wounded, ten times decorated (e.g., D.S.C., British D.S.O., French Croix de Guerre, Russian Order of Kutuzou), became a figure of legend to U.S. foot soldiers. Thrice he refused new commands. But finally, last summer, his Rangers were withdrawn from combat-of 1,500 original members of three battalions, only 199 were still alive...
Decorations Lieut. Colonel Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 42, who quit the U.S. Senate last year to fight in Italy and France, was decorated with the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with palm...