Word: liasion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attached to the American Embassy in Paris during the summers of 1936 and 1937 as interpreter, for a while liasion officer between the Embassy in Paris and in Berlin, and several months in the intelligence division of the Paris Embassy, Benoit saw at first hand a great part of what in his own words he describes as the "gigantic behind-the-scenes action which prepared the way for the final debacle, the collapse of France." The story he tells, unbelievable in 1937, seems all too familiar today...
Morgan, who used to be an editor of the CRIMSON, fought for the British in the World War, and joined the British Army again a year ago. He was captured early in June, when serving as a liasion officer between the English and the French in the Battle of Flanders...