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...World War II's outbreak, he was captured by the Germans in June 1940, was at once repatriated. Then he became active in Pétain's Legion of War Veterans, organized a special shock corps called SOL (Service d'Ordre de la Légion...
...enraged police finally nabbed four boys in the act of hauling down the flag of Vichy's Légion Française des Anciens Combattants. One escaped, but rejoined his comrades when he learned that they had been caught. The four were grilled for a week for the names of their supposedly adult leaders. But the children kept mum. In the end they were turned over to military authorities after a gendarme refused to handcuff them. ("I cannot do that to loyal Frenchmen...
Last week German Army engineers removed the old car from a museum 75 yards away (built by Arthur Henry Fleming of California, who received the Légion d'Honneur for his beneficence) and rolled it down the track to the spot where Adolf Hitler wanted it for reasons of historical drama. Through the dusty windows the correspondents peered, saw Hitler sit down in the chair Foch had used, before a statue of the Marshal. At his right and left sat Göring and Keitel; at one end of the table Brauchitsch and Hess; at the other...
...wife, who went there two months ago to bear a second child.* The General's trip to Europe (his first) is supposedly as private and unofficial as his junket to the U. S. But since he has French ancestors and has been decorated with the Légion d'Honneur, he will probably be feted by the French Government...
...died afterwards, as everyone knew she would. The sight of her willing martyrdom made Cynthia a whole person; she began to work happily again. When Toni's grandmother died the doctor adopted him. Toni, reconciled with the crazy old man, gave him his demonstratedly unlethal telescope. Dr. Gion and Cynthia married, lived happily, and kept a parental eye on Toni and Emerence's orphan daughter...