Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the French took over. To the rostrum stepped François de Menthon, a mild-looking law professor with a scraggly mustache and professorially stooped shoulders, who had been a member of the French underground and was now chief French prosecutor at Nürnberg. In a daylong oration he opened France's case, which deals with slave labor, looting and atrocities in six occupied countries. Said he: "A tortured peoples' craving for justice is the basic foundation of France's call...
...France- Judge, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, Professor of Law at the University of Paris; Prosecutor, Minister of Justice François de Menthon (detained by politics in Paris...
...Russians found another admirer in the Rev. Antonio Laberge, A.A., 40, a native of Rhode Island. As new pastor of the Church of St. Louis des Français, he will soon be the only Roman Catholic priest in Moscow...
...almost finished its case. This week, counsel for the defense will summon its witnesses. Few doubted that the case against the Marshal, the national need to repudiate a national humiliation, would end in the old man's condemnation. But for most Frenchmen the trial was embarrassing. Wrote Academician François Mauriac, a leader of the leftist Front National, in Figaro...
...trouble began when word got about that the Russians had brought a whole shipload of caviar and vodka. Actually, the Russian ship anchored in San Fran cisco Bay was there primarily for radio communication with Moscow. Some of the delegation lived aboard, and they presumably had a supply of their national food and drink. But the refreshments were incidental. Thanks to Russian secrecy about the ship, and the press's failure to check, tongues were clacking furiously when Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov arrived by plane from Washington...