Word: gamelin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris public. Last week the votes were in. Soldiers' votes counted five; civilians' one. All jingo songs were quickly eliminated: the winners had to do with love and food. First prize ($200) went to Bonjour les Demoiselles (Hello, Girls); second ($100) to La Gamelle à Gamelin (Gamelin's Bucket...
More rousing is La Gamelle à Gamelin. Its simple chorus: From Gamelin's bucket all the troop eats soup. All the troop dunks its bread, in Gamelin's bucket...
...pillboxes and individual blockhouses, deeply buried but connected only by trenches, not by anchoring footings as is the Maginot Line.* On paper, the Allies sooner than the Germans could blast a way out of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate, though the cost in men would probably remain about where Generalissimo Gamelin...
...obvious that General Gamelin can hardly be expected to achieve now, by an offensive, what he judged that it was unwise to attempt when the Polish Army was in being and the forces defending the Westwall - itself now made deeper - were far smaller. No military information is needed to arrive at such a conclusion, but only a sense of proportion...
...canes* to apologize for having to shift this meeting from England (the last was in France, at Amiens), later described the gathering as "formidable" ("tremendous"). Originally the Council consisted of four men: Britain's Prime Minister Chamberlain and Lord Chatfield, France's Daladier and Generalissimo Gamelin. This time Mr. Chamberlain took with him four members of his Cabinet-Lord Halifax (Foreign Affairs), Winston Churchill (Admiralty), Oliver Stanley (War), Sir Kingsley Wood (Air)-plus a number of underling specialists and General Sir Edmund Ironside, chief of the British Imperial General Staff, and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound...