Word: gamelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumanian election late this month. The chief of the French General Staff, General Marie Gustave Gamelin. recently visited Rumania to bring up to date the technical details of France's military alliance with Hohenzollern Carol's Kingdom. M. Delbos was insured a welcome because he came to offer French capital to build a Rumanian factory which will turn out war tanks, and to arrange that Rumanian crude oil and gasoline will be accepted by Paris in payment for fine new artillery, additional tanks to be supplied to Bucharest. Premier Tatarescu was so pleased that he joined M. Delbos...
...would have been suicidal to yield to Communist demands that Premier Blum bestir himself to help the Spanish Popular Front. Last week for the first time since the World War a high German Staff Officer, General Ludwig Beck, was welcomed in Paris, conferred with General Marie Gustave Gamelin of the French General Staff, reputedly shared with him the German Secret Service's dossier on what is actually happening in Russia. Cabled veteran Paris Correspondent John Elliott of the Herald Tribune: "Political circles here are convinced that . . . the visit to Paris of General Ludwig Beck . . . and the dramatic about face...
...enemy. This was rammed home by Gringoire with endless cartoons of "Cyclist Salengro" (see cuts) and by this tag the Minister was nightly mocked by comedians in Paris music halls. Friends of M. Salengro said that a "Commission of Honor" headed by the Chief-of-Staff, General Marie Gustave Gamelin, recently investigated his War record and cleared him of desertion. Enemies cracked back that General Gamelin did not head an official Commission of Honor but only acted in concert with two veterans' organizations, and that anyhow the still-living French officers of Salengro's regiment all say today...
...deny that he was in fact court-martialed for desertion, M. Salengro became the butt of jokesters in Paris music halls who kept referring to "Cyclist Salengro" until members of the Blum Cabinet would have liked to scream. They appointed a "Jury of Honor" under General Marie Gustave Gamelin. Chief of the French General Staff, and this last fortnight whitewashed the Minister of Interior by discovering extenuating circumstances, but he is likely to be called "Cyclist Salengro" to his dying day. Indignant, Premier Blum was resolved to punish the man he blamed for organizing the anti-Blum newspaper bloc...
Longer Line? In great agitation luckless French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos, an amateur at diplomacy who only learned of King Leopold's declaration when he read it in the newspapers, went into a huddle with Premier Blum, Defense Minister Daladier and General Gamelin, the French chief-of-staff. In an effort to gain time, M. Delbos presently dispatched to Brussels five questions as to the Belgian Cabinet's intentions, and obtained lukewarm assurances from Belgian Foreign Minister Spaak that existing Franco-Belgian staff consultations will not be disturbed. It appeared, however, that the French General Staff must thoroughly...