Word: maginot
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...means business." His wife José, Pierre Laval's daughter, took him to the Gare de l'Est and business began. Business for René de Chambrun was to be conducted with the 162nd Régiment d'Infanterie de Forteresse, 140 steps down in the Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like a sunken battleship, the fortress throbbed eight hours a day as Diesels pumped in air and light. At 10 o'clock the motors stopped. The lights went out. Then sleep in Chambrun's concrete cell battled with claustrophobia...
...alert nation would have slept behind the Maginot line for nine months like we did," he asserted. "On that score and many others, the French people were deceived again and again...
...convicts and ex-communists manned a large portion of the Maginot line, according to Dourif and when they saw the Germans in the distance they went out and bathed in the river, illustrating the "don't care" attitude of many people...
...them. They used them in a new way. In a war of movement!" "Ah, mon vieux, comme vous etes naif!" said an old French general. "A war of movement across the dry Polish plains, oui! But through the Ardennes, through the Dutch floods, through the Belgian defenses, through the Maginot . . . c'est ridicule...
...miles from the chateau, at the little old market and court town of Riom, the new French Supreme Court through Special Attorney Gaston Cassagnau asked for two more indictments. Cited were Edouard Daladier, "strong-man" wartime Premier, and General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, who believed in the Maginot Line. Wording of the indictments was not divulged, because part of the seven-man court itself examines evidence and brings or dismisses charges, and presumably the evidence against Daladier and Gamelin had not been digested. But it meant that with seven big Frenchmen either under indictment or lock & key, the trial was getting...