Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some French fliers went Herr Goring one better for gallantry. Virginia Van Devander, 17, dark-eyed freshman at Park College in Parkville, Mo., has been practicing her French by writing letters as a marraine (godmother) to one Gilbert La Planche, 18, French aviator now in active service near the Maginot Line. Allowed to choose the name of their squadron, Gilbert's mates took his suggestion arid the name "Escadrilie Virginia." Virginia had her picture taken knitting a sweater for her gallant, unseen Gilbert...
...could be binned and much of the vintage was completely lost. Piles of rotted beets still lie along the roads of France. In Paris last week the cry "Man power on the farms in February and March for the spring sowing is as important as man power on the Maginot Line!" was raised by Parliamentary bigwigs including Senator Maurice Dormann, who demanded immediate granting of leaves to peasant soldiers "in order that they may save the French agricultural situation and our agricultural class...
...white jumpers of the airplane workers and the hodgepodge aprons of the fuse makers, who put together the intricate detonators of bombs and shells. "Of course there is eyestrain and fatigue," says one. "But after all, sitting here at work is not like being up at the Maginot Line in the snow...
...more typical of the average French wartime wives, thousands of whom have taken over their husbands' businesses as well as their farms. She had taken over her husband's work of running the Paris Information Centre. Young Count René de Chambrun is a lieutenant on the Maginot Line. Like most wealthy Parisiennes. the Comtesse has also enrolled to drive her own sleek Hispano in emergency evacuation, succor wounded in case Paris is bombed...
Clearing weather over Western Europe last week was the signal for renewed reconnaissance flights from both sides of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate. Allied soldiers restudied their pattern charts to be sure they remembered which planes to shoot at. But still both the Allies and Germany stayed their hands from grand-scale air warfare, for the same reasons that have ruled for 21 weeks: economy of men and planes, fear of reprisal, unpreparedness, weather. But a piece of air news came from London, about a German device...