Word: french
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After George VI was safe home in England, fact was released that he had: spent six nights abroad; gone within range of German guns; been told that, for this war's first time, British ground troops had (under French direction) engaged the enemy...
...report on the men's morale, quality of food and quarters, supply of toothbrushes, cigarets and the like, requests for reading matter. Every night, by a dim blue light in the trailer, he wrote a letter to his Duchess, who plans to run a war hospital on the French Riviera...
...story the King could take home to his wife & children* was about a French schoolmarm, dating back to his great-grandmother's day, who expressed regret that she had not known sooner of his coming. Otherwise, she said, she would have taught her small charges "to sing 'God Save the Queen...
...Queen Elizabeth did her bit last week by eating a threepenny (5?) luncheon in a rural home for evacuated London slum children, proclaiming it "very good." It was announced that Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose would send Christmas presents to evacuated French children...
...French High Command, normally taciturn, last week authorized an extended commentary which contained both a major boast and a major threat. It said...