Word: mandell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, no longer protected by the shadow of the once-great Code Napoléon, Blum and Daladier were en route to Germany. Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel and General Gustave Gamelin had already joined General Maxime Weygand in Berlin, where a German "people's court"* awaited them...
Manhattan playgoers last week saw Vickie (by S. M. Herzig; produced by Frank Mandel) do a bad job with a good idea. A satire on U.S. women's war activities, it attacked the funny bone by way of the eardrum, failed as farce because it was never funny...
...Bayonne, where the great Stavisky financial scandal had its origins, Jew-baiting Doriot, coatless and snapping his galluses, demanded immediate execution without trial of onetime Premiers Léon Blum and Paul Reynaud and onetime Minister of Interior Georges Mandel. He wanted their deaths as the first of a series of reprisals against civilian leaders who led France...
...under if the commanders don't know how to inspire the will to fight." With Gamelin mute, said he, the onus of war guilt was on political leaders, and, if so, where were the still-imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and ex-Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel...
...Besides being charged with war guilt, Paul Reynaud is accused of embezzlement, Mandel of high treason for trying to deal with the British after France fell. Also accused of war guilt is ex-Air Minister Pierre Cot, now researching a history of France in the Library of Congress at Washington...