Word: edgard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plebiscite on the royal question. The Socialists, led by able Paul-Henri Spaak, rejected Van Zeeland's proposals, ordered their powerful trade unions to prepare for a general strike. Led by Roger Motz, the Liberals also rejected the Catholic proposal. The Communists and their bosses such as Edgard Lalmand were not consulted. They have been steadily fading as a factor in Belgian politics, and nobody consults them these days...
...France to help her to do so. In New York General de Gaulle's political representative, Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, announced that the General would not recognize any infringement on French territory consented to by Vichy. In Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa, De Gaullist General Edgard René Marie de Larminat accused Vichy of allowing the Germans to disorganize French North African possessions, declared that French aircraft factories were making war planes for Germany. In London Count Jacques de Sieyes, De Gaullist agent newly arrived from the U. S., announced: "The French people are not only starving, but absolutely ready...
...days later the flood broke. First came word that the remaining provinces of humid, swampy Equatorial Africa (498,054 sq.mi.; 4,400 whites; 1,986,060 Arabs, Okande, Fiot, Fang, Bateke, Banda, Zandeh, Hausa, Fula and Pigmy tribesmen) had renounced Vichy. This revolt was engineered by General Rene Marie Edgard de Larminat, former Chief of Staff in the Syrian Army, who had escaped to Africa after being imprisoned for attempting to lead the staff to Britain following the French surrender. General de Larminat moved into French territory from his refuge in the Belgian Congo after his agents had arrested...