Word: croix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malan, who is a distant cousin of the Premier Malan he fights. "Not a single self-respecting white man" would join Torch, a Nationalist minister once prophesied. Last week Torch claimed two of South Africa's most distinguished soldiers. One was General George Edwin Brink, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Croix de Guerre. The other was General James Thorn Durrant, who was eased out this year as director general of the air force. General Brink, who commanded South Africa's 1st Division in North Africa, could not stomach what had happened to his country's armed forces. "Soldiers...
...World War I veteran (with the Médaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre), Antoine Pinay was one of the 569 French parliamentarians who voted state powers to Marshal Pétain at Vichy in 1940. But Pinay managed to avoid collaborationist charges by his excellent record as wartime mayor of Saint-Chamond in the Loire. He operates a tannery in the Rhone town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise. It was the conservative look of Premier Pinay which attracted the Gaullist right wing...
Bonnet, who has been ambassador since 1944, served as a captain during World War I. He received the Croix de Guerre and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor...
...Croix de Guerre...
...road, is Andree-Claire Montboisses. But the passing G.I.s who joyfully go to her rescue shout: "Hello Pepita!" Since she arrived in Korea last July, the fame of willowy, green-eyed Pepita has spread up & down 145 miles of front. A registered nurse, an ambulance driver who won the Croix de Guerre evacuating wounded under fire in Belgium in 1940, a French Resistance fighter, Andree-Claire Montboisses is assistante sociale to the commander of the French volunteer battalion. No other nation among the 17 in the U.N. army has anything like her. Her job: to boost morale and minister...