Word: croix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Konstantin Rokossovsky, who only the week before had been a marshal of the Red army and a Soviet citizen, settled down in Warsaw to his new job as Marshal of Poland and Minister of National Defense. In Paris, the journal La Croix mused: "What would our Communist papers say if France were to appoint an American or ah Englishman as Minister of National Defense...
...become a top executive in the French underground. Before he married in 1945, he seemed to have almost no private life. Said one of his friends: "If you saw a man sitting in the sun at a cafe with his legs sprawled out, drinking wine and reading La Croix, it could not be anyone but Bidault...
Later, Kathleen Burke married another friend of France, Los Angeles Artist (portraits and murals) Girard van Barkaloo Hale, who served for two years with an American Field Service unit attached to the 22nd French Infantry; in recognition of his devoted service, France awarded him the Croix de Guerre with two citations...
Above & Beyond the Call. In New Orleans, Carl Bendzus was charged by federal agents with illegally wearing the Congressional Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Purple Heart, Victoria Cross, British Military Medal, British Military Cross, Mons Star Medal, Victory Medal, Belgian Croix de Guerre, Belgian Order of the Crown, French Legion of Honor and half a dozen lesser decorations...
Mummies & Metaphysics. Today the mosquelike structures of Rosicrucian Park house an Egyptian and Oriental museum (complete with genuine mummies), an auditorium, a library, a shrine dedicated to Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, a planetarium and Rose Croix University, with its Colleges of Fine Arts, Mundane and Arcane Sciences and Humanities...