Word: ferrand
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...Nazis, the Nazis were permitting Vichy to build an air force for defense of the French Empire. (Under the Armistice terms, all air equipment in the Unoccupied Zone was to be dismantled.) One grey rainy day old Marshal Pétain went to Aulnat airfield, near Clermont-Ferrand (France's Burbank-Akitin...
...goal not to be sneered at. Perhaps British proximity might prove to be a beneficial persuasion on General Maxime Weygand. The Vichy censors decided it was about time to let French newspapers pay a little attention to the Italian situation in Africa. The paper Montague of Clermont-Ferrand went so far as to say: "The word 'retreat' should now be used...
Meanwhile at Clermont-Ferrand a military tribunal tried, stripped of rank and sentenced to death General Charles de Gaulle, for desertion, flight, conspiring with a foreign power, inciting French soldiers to enter service with a foreign power, and engaging in propaganda against France. Safe in his dingy suite of offices on London's Victoria Embankment, where he is trying to rally free Frenchmen to the cause of liberation, General de Gaulle took his death sentence lightly, declared: "I shall have a settlement of accounts with the men of Vichy after the British victory. I consider this...
...losing fight on the Maiche Plain before retreating across the border into Switzerland. The onrushing German columns, their tanks and trucks beginning to break down after strenuous campaigning, pushed down through Lyon, "Pittsburgh of France," but a segment of fierce French resistance formed west of there at Clermont-Ferrand and with other French remnants from the Belfort district momentarily pocketed the German elements...
...professor of French Literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, has recently been elected to an honorary membership in Le Cercle Francais. Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the United States is the honorary president...