Word: ile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal of France," snapped Henri Philippe Pétain at his judges more than a year ago, "begs nobody's mercy!" A solitary prisoner now in France's Ile d'Yeu Fortress, ten miles offshore in the Bay of Biscay, the 90-year-old ex-hero of Verdun is still as crusty as ever. In rugged health he spends his days pondering in justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole...
...still bringing G.I.s and war brides home. But every two weeks she was taking 400 to 500 passengers from New York to London for $212.50. In about seven months the Queen Elizabeth would be in regular North Atlantic service. By mid-summer the French Line hopes to have the Ile de France and DeGrasse running. Before long, the War Shipping Administration hopes to allocate more ships to the Mediterranean and South African runs, now serviced only by freighters...
Thomas Mann, German author in ex, ile who last year became a U.S. citizen, wrote an article for the liberal monthly, Free World, also prophesied a black future for Germans in general, for German writers in particular: "To be a German author -what will that be? Back of every sentence ... in our language stands a broken . . . burnt-out people, bewildered about itself and its history . . . the fearful accumulation of hatred round about will not permit it to emerge from its boundaries-a people that can never show its face again...
...Tanguy is a lean, hard-bitten Parisian who, in the days when he used to be a boilermaker, was known simply as Tanguy. He became Rol when he headed the French section of the International Brigade in Spain. As Colonel Rol-Tanguy he headed the F.F.I, in the Ile-de-France region (Paris plus the Departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise). Last August, during the battle of Paris, the Swedish Minister and a French military delegate negotiated an armistice with the German garrison. But Colonel Rol-Tanguy denounced it, ordered his Maquis to continue street fighting. It was this...
...agree. For a time his headquarters on the Rue St. Dominique were cut off from telephonic communication with the War Ministry in the same building. Government ministers and C.N.R. representatives argued the issue. Last week it was settled. Colonel Rol-Tanguy went out as F.F.I, chief for Ile-de-France. His successor: General Revers, ex-postal clerk and a veteran FFIer. Colonel Rol-Tanguy remained as General Revers' chief of staff...