Word: cyr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killed or dead of wounds (5,000 more casualties and 35,000 more combat dead than the U.S. lost in three years of Korea). Almost all of the officers and noncoms are French, but the annual drain on trained officers has steadily exceeded the output of Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. Aside from the toll of blood from a nation that had bled so much in two world wars, the war was costing France a staggering sum-$1.3 billion last year, of which the U.S. supplied $400 million plus direct delivery of war goods, B-26s and Flying...
...example, Saint-Cyr, the West Point of France, would be obliged to admit German, Benelux and Italian cadets, and could no longer have sole say over its own curriculum. Nor would France any longer be able to make, buy or sell arms as it sees fit. There was also a serious question whether France could freely exchange its overseas officers-fighting in Indo-China or tied down in colonial trouble spots-with its own officers in the European Army, without five nations' concurrence. These difficulties had led De Gaulle to demand a looser federation, something like an old-fashioned...
...village where De Lattre's 97-year-old father has been mayor for 40 years, De Lattre startled the neighbors early in life by leading cavalry charges across the garden astride his father's great Dane. As a young lieutenant of dragoons just out of St. Cyr in World War I, he earned his first wound and his first citation in a victorious hand-to-hand clash with two German Uhlans. Transferred to the infantry, he was wounded four more times in the same war, wounded again fighting the Riffs in Morocco in 1925. In 1939 he became...
...whom France, and France's friends, had counted, was out of the battle (see below). The guerrilla warfare the French had been fighting since 1946 had already cost more casualties than those suffered by the U.S. in Korea-including the equivalent of three entire classes from St. Cyr, France's West Point, and ten sons of French generals. It had also cost at least as many dollars as all the billions in aid the U.S. had sent to France since the end of World...
Tired of ward routine, Demara took to religion again. Shuttling back & forth across the Maine-New Brunswick border between two religious houses, he met the real Dr. Cyr and won his confidence. "Dr. Hamann" never betrayed himself in his medical shoptalk. At St. Romuald in Quebec, "Dr. Hamann" became "Brother John." But almost at once, he ran away and signed on with the R.C.N. as "Dr. Cyr...