Word: gamelin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beige and dark oak Salle d'Assises, where watchmen at night saw the ghosts of the profligate Dukes of Berry and Bourbon, lingering on from the Middle Ages. The accused were two for mer Premiers, Edouard Daladier and Leon Blum, the once-great Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Air Minister Guy La Chambre* and a controller general of a once-great Army, Pierre Jaco-met. The accusation originally had been that they led France to war, but now the Vichy Government had watered down the charge to "betrayal of duties or charges" in the preparation and conduct...
...Dishonor. In a quavering voice General Gamelin read a declaration which implied that several times he had tried to resign in protest against the lack of war material. Having sacrificed himself, he could not bring dishonor on the Army by giving further testimony. It was obvious that General Gamelin's defense would be that no responsibility could be attached to him for "a regime which has disappeared...
...grey morning last week, as the rain beat down on southern France, three old men set out on a journey. For over a year Edouard Daladier, Léon Blum and Maurice Gustave Gamelin had been held at Riom, charged with the guilt of France's destruction. Now, with their trial fixed for Jan. 15, they were sped by automobile south to Portalet Fortress. There, two days later, they were joined by two other statesmen of the French Republic: Georges Mandel and Paul Reynaud...
...General Gamelin, said the Germans. D.N.B...
...France were still technically at war, they were about to exchange envoys, the Nazis sending consuls not only to Paris, but to Lyon and Marseille as well. And Marshal Henri Philippe Petain finally did something about the men whom Vichy blames for France's defeat-General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Premiers Edouard Daladier, Leon Blum and Paul Reynaud, former Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel. The Marshal ordered them moved from various jails to a new jail in the Pyrenees fort of Col du Pourtalet, there to await the trial they have already awaited for twelve months...