Word: mandell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five years France had not heard the rasping, unafraid voice of Georges Mandel, the slight, sallow man who was born Jeroboam Rothschild, brought up as Clemenceau's child, and had been the Third Republic's last Minister of the Interior. He had fled to Morocco after the 1940 debacle. He would rouse the Empire, he cried, to fight on. Vichy and the Gestapo nabbed and jailed him, buried him in silence. Last July, on a bypath of Fontainebleau Forest, militia of Vichy's Joseph Darnand rubbed him out in gangster style...
...last week Georges Mandel spoke to France again, as rasping and unafraid as ever. On his bullet-ridden corpse had been found a packet of penciled paper scraps and a tiny notebook. Overlooked by the assassins, the scraps were saved by a loyal official, handed over to Mandel's devoted mistress, blond, Junoesque Madame Beatrice Bretty of the Comédie Française. Now, with Madame Bretty's permission, they were published in Mandel's old paper, the Rightist L'Ordre...
Next came Pierre Boero, Georges Neroni, Pierre Lambert. They had served in Joseph Darnand's Milice, had played minor roles in a major crime-the assassination of Georges Mandel, great Third Republican, bitter foe of fascism, who was kidnapped from a Paris prison, murdered in the Forest of Fontainebleau. They were acquitted of the murder, convicted of aiding the Germans. For Lambert, 20 years; for Boero and Neroni, death...
...into the news. Former Chamber of Deputies President Edouard Herriot and Premier Leon Blum, who had been reported dead, were now reported to be in Germany. Reported "living quietly" was: General Maxime Weygand (in the Tyrol). Reported assassinated by Darnand's militia in Paris: ex-Cabinet Minister Georges Mandel...
Died. Georges Mandel, 58, longtime French politico. Minister of the Interior in World War II; of undisclosed causes; in prison, somewhere in Germany. Born Jereboam Rothschild (no kin to the financiers), he was Clemenceau's trouble-shooter in World War I held other portfolios before joining Paul Reynaud's doomed cabinet...