Word: lacau
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...other extreme rightists were arrested, among them Major Georges Loustaneau-Lacau, a former Pétain aide who turned up at Pétain's treason trial to defend the Marshal-even though Pétain had not lifted a finger when the Nazis put Loustaneau-Lacau in a concentration camp. Another of the arrested plotters was General Maurice Guillaudot, who was about to go to a banquet when police came for him. Said he: "I understand what is involved. Just let me go to my banquet." The French police, who pride themselves on being raisonnable...
This decision was reached after cable consultations with Mr. Lacau, the Director General of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, with Mr. Alan Rowe, Acting Director of the Expedition, and with Mr. C. M. Firth, director of the Egyptian Government excavations at Saqqarah...
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