Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laval could rally the French to fight Allied troops was a problem for the oily little lawyer to figure out for himself. Last week Jacques Doriot, another collaborator of Laval's soiled stripe, got clubbed in Paris. Near Lyon, 5,000 peasants and townspeople gathered for the funeral of British aviators who crashed returning from Italy...
...thousand workers in the industrial regions, including Lyon, were striking. (Vichy admitted some strikes had been "attempted...
...Pierre Laval's Mobile Guards and French Legion storm troopers had fired rifles and machine-gun volleys, hurled hand grenades into crowds of French demonstrators at Lyon and Ambérieu. Fifty-five deaths (which Vichy denied) were reported...
...Jayvees ran a steady and consistent race to outscore Tufts and M. I. T. at Tufts yesterday afternoon. Tech took the first two places, but Hyde finished third, Archie Lyon fourth, and Bunks Burditt seventh to sew up the victory for the Crimson...
...Response. Laval pushed the plan feverishly, prodded by German threats, complaints and taunts that France had not earned "the right to a happy future in Hitler's Europe." But the response was bad. Workers disappeared just before they were to entrain for Germany. A bomb destroyed the Lyon recruiting offices on the Boulevard Garibaldi. At least ten officials of the Vichy Labor Ministry resigned in protest and despair. Workers in the big Renault plant near Paris struck in protest against the forced recruiting. They were idle for three hours, until the Germans threatened to shoot 50 hostages...