Word: laval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper few of them had ever read-London's jingoistic, whopping (circ. 4,052,712 cut) that showed Charles de Gaulle and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, fused into a two-headed monster, laying a wreath on the grave of onetime French Premier and Nazi Collaborator Pierre Laval...
...Express cartoon was one of the lowest journalistic blows of the year; historic fact is that it was Pierre Laval's government which condemned De Gaulle to death in absentia after the fall of France in 1940, because of his refusal to collaborate with the Nazis. But low as it was, the cartoon was only a little lower than the run-of-the-mill abuse that London's Fleet Street was directing last week at De Gaulle and Adenauer...
Died. Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount Templewood, 79, longtime British diplomat, who excelled in tennis, often bumbled in diplomacy; of a heart attack; in London. As Foreign Secretary in 1935, he engineered with wily French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the notorious pact that surrendered a fifth of besieged Ethiopia to Mussolini. Forced by public outrage to resign, he bounced back to office under Neville Chamberlain, backed Chamberlain's Munich appeasement because he felt it would intimidate Russia. "He passes," someone said, "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...
...mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine in the world," says Sinclair Lewis Socialite Lucille McKelvey, but the remark passes several noodle-lengths over the head of George Babbitt, who answers...
Paul Marie A. Richaud, 71, was born in Versailles, and in 1938 became Bishop of Laval, near Rennes. A zealous promoter of Catholic Action and the French boy scout movement, he was named Bishop of Bordeaux in 1950, appropriately is noted in that wine-producing region for his fine cellar...