Word: enghien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like ants to a honey pot, the feckless of Europe flocked last week to Enghien-les-Bains, just outside Paris. There, in the white casino above the quiet lake, twelve beauties were competing for the title Miss Europe. At the first showing two were missing: bumped by Egyptian royalty from the Cairo-Paris plane, Miss Italy still sat in Rome; Miss Austria just hadn't appeared...
Thorez was quick to realize his mistake. At 9:30 on "referendum night," the big four of the French Communist Party were sitting around a rickety wooden table in an office on the top floor of the Humanité building in the rue d'Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez...