Word: gamelin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This was enough to start on. A few miles from the chateau, at the little old market and court town of Riom, the new French Supreme Court through Special Attorney Gaston Cassagnau asked for two more indictments. Cited were Edouard Daladier, "strong-man" wartime Premier, and General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, who believed in the Maginot Line. Wording of the indictments was not divulged, because part of the seven-man court itself examines evidence and brings or dismisses charges, and presumably the evidence against Daladier and Gamelin had not been digested. But it meant that with seven big Frenchmen either under...
...teau Chazeron there awaited him the same medieval accommodations as had greeted onetime Premier Daladier, ex-Generalissimo Gamelin, ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel, former Minister of Interior, and hulking, scholarly onetime Premier Léon Blum of the Popular Front...
...Gamelin, who dropped from sight after being succeeded by General Maxime Weygand, was the most active of all. Rumor had had him executed, dead by suicide or fleeing the country to save his skin. Actually he had been tending the rose garden at his home near Paris and showed up to give a certain zip to the dullness of the chateau's life. Briskly he did daily setting-up exercises, snappily returned the salutes he rates from the soldiers who guard...
There were certain to be questions on whether Gamelin sacrificed his ill-equipped troops to cover his own blunder, why Reynaud and Daladier ever conceived that France could defeat Germany, why planes were abandoned intact for the enemy to take over, and who were the men responsible for such errors as ordering an armaments factory immediately abandoned when the assembly line was filled with virtually completed tanks. Everything could come under review with a court charged to determine and judge the men responsible for "the passage from the state of peace to a state of war" and whose acts subsequently...
Both the leaders of France during the thirties and the main movements within the country will be analyzed. Such men as Laval, Barthou and Gamelin, such movements as the Blum government and the internal disunity of the country, will be under discussion...