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Senator George is not much on military affairs, but he knows that though Martinique has formidable natural possibilities for defense, it ought to be a pushover for a combined Naval, Marine and Army task force. That the island has no shore batteries to speak of, and not one airfield-so...
As it became clear that De Gaulle and Britain would see it through, one by one French officers came from far places to join his cause. Vice Admiral Emile Henry Muselier, who had been retired by Admiral Darlan, reached England soon after the armistice and was immediately made commander of...
from doing the same. Until November a British containing force cruised outside the spacious (15 sq. mi.), deep harbor of Fort de France, bottling up the French warships inside: the old, waddly carrier Béarn, the cruiser Emile Bertin, a few lesser ships, and U.S. warplanes-now partly dismantled...
While the British Navy still seemed to rule the seas, Darlan favored the British. He had been Chief of the Naval General Staff since 1936, and at the beginning of the war he was indeed so floridly Anglophile that Vice Admiral Emile Muselier (now an ardent De Gaullist) cabled him...
Died. Emile Bernard, 73, one of the last of the French impressionist painters, intimate friend of Paul Gauguin, fellow student of Van Gogh, art critic; in Paris.