Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balding, brooding little Gaston Henry-Haye, Vichyfrench Ambassador to Washington, dropped in at the State Department last week-ostensibly to register a complaint with Secretary Cordell Hull about the way the free press of the U.S. treats his country's leaders; actually to stress again that Pétain's collaboration was not quite material cooperation...
France's Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye promptly answered this warning with a series of denials. There were, he said, no German troops at Dakar, Casablanca, or in any French Mediterranean port. He even said there were no Axis forces in Syria, no airborne Axis troops in any French possessions of the Near East. France had no aggressive designs against Britain. But, said M. Henry-Have proudly, "the leaders of France . . . will defend French territories against any attack...
France's deeds continued to parallel Darlan's words. While French Ambassador to the U.S. Gaston Henry-Haye was solemnly assuring the U.S. Government that France would not go beyond her Armistice commitments to the Nazis, the Nazis were permitting Vichy to build an air force for defense of the French Empire. (Under the Armistice terms, all air equipment in the Unoccupied Zone was to be dismantled.) One grey rainy day old Marshal Pétain went to Aulnat airfield, near Clermont-Ferrand (France's Burbank-Akitin...
...prolific was Bangs that the number of his pseudonyms put a strain on his wit. They included Shakespeare Jones, Gaston V. Drake, Periwinkle Podmore, Horace Dodd Gastit, A. Sufferan Mann. In politics he was defeated for Mayor of Yonkers, but became a very useful bird dog for the imperialism of Roosevelt I and General Leonard Wood in Cuba (on which he wrote a book) and in the Philippines. Had Wood been nominated in 1920, Bangs would probably have gone to the Court of St. James's. In the reconstruction of France he more or less worked himself to death...
...being systematically sabotaged by their crews. In a few hours word reached the President. Back came an order from the Potomac: seize all German and Italian ships to prevent their being further damaged; put all Danish ships in protective custody. In Washington, tall, mild, Acting Treasury Secretary Herbert Earle Gaston put his finger on Section I of Title II of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, authorizing seizure of foreign vessels "to prevent damage or injury to any harbor or waters...