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...deny that he was in fact court-martialed for desertion, M. Salengro became the butt of jokesters in Paris music halls who kept referring to "Cyclist Salengro" until members of the Blum Cabinet would have liked to scream. They appointed a "Jury of Honor" under General Marie Gustave Gamelin. Chief of the French General Staff, and this last fortnight whitewashed the Minister of Interior by discovering extenuating circumstances, but he is likely to be called "Cyclist Salengro" to his dying day. Indignant, Premier Blum was resolved to punish the man he blamed for organizing the anti-Blum newspaper bloc...
Longer Line? In great agitation luckless French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos, an amateur at diplomacy who only learned of King Leopold's declaration when he read it in the newspapers, went into a huddle with Premier Blum, Defense Minister Daladier and General Gamelin, the French chief-of-staff. In an effort to gain time, M. Delbos presently dispatched to Brussels five questions as to the Belgian Cabinet's intentions, and obtained lukewarm assurances from Belgian Foreign Minister Spaak that existing Franco-Belgian staff consultations will not be disturbed. It appeared, however, that the French General Staff must thoroughly...
...mouthed General Sir Cyril John Deverell, who lately succeeded Field Marshal Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd. So far as the public knew, General Deverell took no part in the conference. Neither did Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Emile Van Den Berghe of Belgium, nor Chief of Staff Marie Gustave Gamelin of France...
...Jouvenel, while bestowing a decoration upon General Gamelin (who temporarily succeeded General Sarrail), took occasion to utter veiled conciliatory remarks and threats as follows...
...speedily discovered "source" proved to be the official report of General Gamelin, successor to General Sarrail until the new Provisional High Commander, General Duport, was able to reach Damascus. It read, in part, as follows...