Word: gamelin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sexagenarian, grey, thick-set Pertinax will be busy: he will also edit the weekly L'Europe Nouvelle, as he did after he split with Echo in 1938 over its appeasement policies. He intends to update his best-selling U.S. book, Gravediggers of France (Pétain, Gamelin, Reynaud, Daladier). Then at last it can be published, perhaps, in the country where the graves were...
History's shabby discards and their dejected heirs were cashing in on the fact and dialectic of disaster. Diaries, articles and book excerpts by Paul Reynaud, Maurice Gamelin, Benito Mussolini, Hermann Göring and Galeazzo Ciano had already appeared in hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, and there were more to come...
Died. Joseph Barthélemy, 71, ex-Vichy Minister of Justice (1941-43), official prosecutor of Daladier, Blum and Gamelin at the long-winded Riom trials, since 1942 blacklisted as a collaborator by the French underground; before the start of his own trial by the French High Court of Justice; of cancer; near Toulouse...
...France's Generals Maurice Gamelin, who commanded the Allied armies in 1940's disastrous Battle of France, and Maxime Weygand, who remained loyal to Vichy...
...poems, esoteric novels, mildly erotic, but too keenly perceptive to be pornographic, expositions of his theory of unanimism, experiments in telepathy, in Extra-Retinal Vision. He was also a lecturer in philosophy, and a one-man conspiracy with hush-hush dealings with people like King Leopold of Belgium, General Gamelin, Premier Daladier, Otto Abetz, then Chief of Nazi Propagandist in France-under the delusion (as ingenuously described by him in his Seven Mysteries of Europe) that they were Men of Good Will...