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...Christine's bravery had earned her a medal from Poland, the French Croix de Guerre, the Order of the British Empire, and Britain's George Medal for Special Services. But with peace, it seemed, Britain had no more need of her bravery. As Christine Granville (one of her undercover aliases), she took a room in a respectable Kensington family hotel and started job hunting. Too proud to mention either her medals or her war service, she was turned down time & again . as a foreigner. She worked for a while as a $14-a-week salesgirl in Harrod...
Buck, Ph.D. '35, is the fifth University alumnus to be elected to the present Smith board. Other alumni now serving on the board are President Benjamin S. Wright. Ph.D. '25 of Northampton. Morris F. La Croix '10 of Boston. Franklin E. Parker 'IS, also of Boston, and Alexander I Henderson '13 of New York...
...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...