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...defeated W. T. Bocricke '50 (H), 15-10, 15-12, 15-8; H. K. Foster '50 (H) defeated Harding (E), 15-8, 15-7, 17-15; J. P. Emerson '50 (H) defeated Buttricke (E), 15-4, 12-15, 15-10, 15-12; Captain F. H. Cabot '50 (B), defeated Koenig (E), 15-10, 15-12, 17-19, 19-16; S. Mead '50 (H) defeated Colwell...
Refreshingly sweet was the Allied Control Council's unanimity on sugar taxation for Germany last week. Treacly sweet was the notation that: "British and American representatives associated themselves with an expression of congratulation by General Koenig to Marshal Sokolovsky on his elevation to the high rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. Representatives of the U.S., the Soviet Union and Great Britain also congratulated General Koenig on his promotion to the rank of Army General." Such sugar-coating could not hide the fact that the four powers had not agreed where it mattered most: coordinated control of Germany...
...French frontier Lieut. General Joseph Pierre Koenig, hero of Bir Hacheim, Commander of the F.F.I, and Military Governor of Paris, waited in stony silence to put the old man under arrest. A Swiss Guard of Honor presented arms. But French troops presented reversed arms (rifle butts upward), a gesture of dishonor. The old Marshal doffed his hat, offered to shake hands with General Koenig. The General stiffly declined. Quietly, in the twilight, Henri Petain boarded a special train for Paris...
...Canteen's gala opening had been more Irish than French-it lasted three nights. The first night, a sort of benefit running to diamonds rather than dog tags, was the biggest social event in Paris since the liberation. In a whirl of color, General Joseph-Pierre Koenig, the British Ambassador and Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Prince Achille Murat. Lucien Lelong and a host of other celebrities drank champagne at $30 a bottle, netted the Canteen almost...
Then the Gaullist administration moved to absorb the F.F.I, into the Regular Army, and General Joseph Pierre Koenig, Gaullist Commander in Chief of the F.F.I., ordered the Paris Maquis to give up their arms. The National Council of Resistance agreed that the F.F.I, should be under War Ministry control...