Word: gamelin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Editor Williams began airing his stuff Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays over Manhattan's WOR for New York Philco dealers. First time up, Inside Stuffer Williams aired the "plan Gamelin," under which "the major amphitheatre of war is to be far removed from the Western Front." He masterminded a possible Italian tie-up with the Allies, with a thrust at the Russian oil fields at Baku by Weygand's French, British and possibly Turkish Army, from Syria. Quick action was being urged, said he. because "the present situation in the unpredictable Balkans, and particularly in Rumania, will...
Polite War Secretary Oliver Stanley replied that Edmund had gone to France on the personal invitation of France's Gen eralissimo Maurice Gamelin, to see his father get the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. It was "a very exceptional" visit ; probably no other children would be allowed to go to the war zone...
...reciprocate the honors bestowed by King George VI when he visited the front before Christmas, France's Generalissimo Maurice Gamelin rode his special train to the town where Great Britain's General the Viscount Gort has his chateau-headquarters. With crack detachments of the Welsh Guards and 8th French Zouaves looking on, the bantam Generalissimo stood on tiptoe, lifted his stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned...