Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle is a great Frenchman, but he means trouble. De Gaulle always means trouble for France. I don't know if he makes trouble, or if he is just there when trouble comes. It is a delicate question. Tonight we shall have some trouble. But I am not going home until I have sold my chestnuts...
...Frenchman, doused with the contents of the plane's chemical toilet, was apologetically informed: "This is not normal operating procedure in American airplanes...
...week, members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, having doggedly toured the neat Norman farm country and held long conferences with Premier Paul Ramadier and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, relaxed at a party given by U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Over cocktails, one Senator's wife asked an English-speaking Frenchman...
...blossom under careful tending of new American policy. But France's worries are not all founded in emotion, for sound Gallic sense recognizes the need for 19 million tons of coal this year while only 5 million tons are available. German heavy industry not only holds fears for the Frenchman in remembrance of things past, but also is the smelting furnace consuming the coal and coke needed for French recovery...
...would not be necessary to have a coup d'état or a civil war for De Gaulle to return. Constitutionally, President of the Republic Auriol can invite any Frenchman to form a Government. De Gaulle will make a condition of his return that the Constitution give greater authority to the executive (or that the Assembly be dissolved after voting him emergency powers). Main points of the policy he would put into effect...