Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador to Paris, Count Fernand de Brinon, was back there from Berlin with Hitler's terms of "collaboration." The Marshal anxiously awaited the coming to Vichy of this onetime payoff man for Georges Bonnet who now held France's fate in his brief case. Hitler's terms were reported to include a demand that German troops be allowed to cross Tunisia from Sicily for an attack on the British in Libya. This proposition was made to the Marshal by his ousted Vice Premier Pierre Laval when the two met at La Ferté a fortnight ago. Then...
...Whatever the next ten years may bring, I don't want to reproach myself for having made bad use of the breathing space thus offered me by fate." His journal is, accordingly, a record of beauty and of pleasure, intensified and at the same time sobered...
...trying to reach the border. When he arrived at Lyon a special railway car was waiting. The diplomatic Admiral, long-faced, forceful, tactful, had come a long way to enter the world's most perplexing diplomatic labyrinth. It was a France in which most Frenchmen believed that their fate depended on a British victory, though a big section of the Government believed a British victory impossible. It was a France that looked toward U. S. aid to the democracies and yet believed that U. S. aid would be inadequate and too late. It was a cold, hungry, defeated...
...André Malraux (Man's Fate), who served with a French tank division, was wounded on June 16, 1940, later captured. He managed to escape from a Nazi prison camp, found himself in occupied France, for some time was unable to get out. Now Novelist Malraux is living at Hyeres on the Riviera, writing "the most important novel of my career...
...rise of fascism completed the intellectuals' conversion. Frightened by the fate of Germany's intelligentsia, delighted by the chance to strike at Naziism in Spain, intellectuals lent their names, prestige, money, often militant support to dozens of committees (many of which they now realize were phony) to fight fascism and aid loyalist Spain...