Word: laval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comes to putting Frenchmen into the tumbrels of political recrimination, none are more skillful than other Frenchmen. In The Gravediggers of France, in 1944, French Journalist Pertinax (André Géraud) called Paul Reynaud the third gravedigger (after Gamelin and Daladier and before Pétain and Laval). Reynaud now makes an eloquent case for the proposition that, if he helped dig the grave, it was really his political enemies who committed the murder and provided the corpse...
...most. He could envision something of what a war of movement and armor would do to France's static infantry. Above all, he knew that Hitler was not Kaiser Wilhelm I, "the old gentleman who took Alsace Lorraine from us," but a modern Genghis Khan. He knew that Laval, "the Robert Walpole* of the rabble," was squalid and detestable; that Pétain was a defeatist who had to be "kicked into" his victories in World War I, and in World War II, in the absence of all effective French arms, could only snuffle about the lack of carrier...
Died. Constant Victor André Mornet, 85, Procureur Général of France, prosecutor in the trials of Dutch dancing-girl-turned-spy Mata Hari (1917), Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval (1945); in Nohant-Vic, France. Called by his government to prosecute Pétain, Mornet summed up in a stormy five-hour speech, concluded: "I would not be doing my duty if I did not insist on the capital penalty...
...French authorities told Serge to leave the country because of his shady financial transactions. Serge had another version: Premier Pierre Laval, he said, suspected Rubinstein of dallying with his mistress, a French marquise, and deported him in a fit of jealousy. Two years before his expulsion, he had got hold of operating control of the Chosen Corp., a British company which owned some Korean gold mines. It was a typically slippery operation. The company was in the midst of a management scandal (the director ultimately went off to Wormwood Scrubs prison), and the stock was momentarily cheap. Before Serge made...
...Politicians. St. Laurent had intended to name Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, 51, brilliant dean of the social-science faculty at Quebec's Laval University. Father Lévesque was ready to accept the post, and his Dominican Order approved. But the priest's diocesan superior, Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, vetoed it. Ottawa Archbishop Marie-Joseph Lemieux and Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal agreed with Archbishop Roy's stand that the unprecedented * appointment of a priest to a political post might eventually embarrass the church...