Word: gallipolis
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...choice there was a sound reason. Winston Churchill himself articulated it. True, he takes chances; he thought up Gallipoli, he endorsed General de Gaulle, he brought some "dangerous" left-wingers into the highest councils of the land. He expressed his basic conservatism as he accepted the leadership: "At all times, according to my lights and throughout the changing scenes through which we are all hurried, I have always faithfully served two public causes which I think stand supreme-maintenance of the enduring greatness of Britain and her Empire and the historical continuity of our island life...
...airfields, garrisons, sentiment. Therefore he proposed that he personally lead a French force to Dakar, the capital, and subdue it by persuasion. He was sure that overwhelming opinion favored him rather than the Germans. General Spears took the idea to the Prime Minister; and Winston Churchill, the author of Gallipoli, approved-even ordered a supporting British force. If De Gaulle succeeded, the adventure would be a spectacular coup; if he failed-well, nothing risked, nothing gained...
Presently, in Casablanca, arrived the man whom great Lyautey designated in 1916 to succeed him as Governor of Morocco: General Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud. the white-whiskered "Lion of Champagne." who, wounded at Gallipoli, had his right arm amputated instead of nursed along, so that he could get back into action a month sooner. Whatever General Gouraud said to General Noguès, it had instant effect. Presently the latter, and also Governor General Georges Le Beau of Algeria, saluted the Pétain Government and announced "an end to hostilities" in North Africa...
...Everyone who understood English tuned in the British Broadcasting Corp. Disturbing to many of the French was the BBC announcement that Winston Churchill had been made Prime Minister. In Paris his reputation is for recklessness. The French remember that in World War I the ghastly risks and losses of Gallipoli were his responsibility as First Lord of the Admiralty, and Parisians feared last week that Mr. Churchill and Herr Hitler would soon be competing in a swiftly rising crescendo of blood & thunder...
...opponents, in & out of the Conservative Party, punctuated his every sentence with boos, catcalls, cries of "You missed the bus." Up jumped the bewigged Speaker of the House to plead for order. Thereafter, for 57 minutes the Prime Minister droned on, protesting that Trondheim was not comparable to Gallipoli, explaining that the failure in Norway was caused by lack of airdromes and the speed of German troop movements, defending his leadership as an effort to "steer a middle course." Only once did he draw hearty cheers from his supporters, with a warning which later events proved to have been remarkably...