Word: mandell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...launched was calculated to fit their battered rump of a nation into the familiar authoritarian pattern of government by suppression, censorship, alibis, purges. Echoes of "Heads will roll" Hitlerism were heard from Paris to Marseille as the Petain Government announced that onetime Premier Edouard Daladier, onetime Interior Minister Georges Mandel, onetime Navy Minister Cesar Campinchi, onetime Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos and numerous other pre-Petain Government leaders were under arrest and would be tried and punished because "they threw our country into war although they knew we were not ready to fight...
...Daladier, Mandel, Campinchi and Delbos had fled from Bordeaux on June 20 on the steamer Massilia, a few days before armistice agreements were concluded with Germany and Italy. Reaching Casablanca, they were held on their ship by Moroccan authorities acting on orders from Bordeaux, to await the Petain Government's decision. In Marseille last week to stand trial, sagging-jawed Daladier and his fellow scapegoats learned that they were the principal victims of a new Government decree withdrawing citizenship and confiscating the property of all citizens who left French territory between May 10 and June 30 without a valid...
...been swept off the civilized world. The Gestapo doubtless had thousands of them in concentration camps. Mystery surrounded France's democratic leaders. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud was suffering at an unrevealed hospital from severe head injuries resulting from a "motor accident"; former Premier Edouard Daladier, former Ministers Georges Mandel and Yvon Delbos were "at sea" on a ship long overdue and missing-according to Berlin. The only Frenchmen heard from were those willing to play Hitler's game, for Hitler's Gauleiter of Gaul was practical, nonliberal, Italophile Constitution-Maker Laval himself...
...Georges Mandel, terrifying Minister of the Interior who had set about ruthlessly suppressing dissension in the land, then roared that he would order a lettre de cachet (imprisonment without trial) of anyone advocating separate peace-including Cabinet Ministers. The argument crackled and burned. Suddenly heavy-faced Edouard Daladier stormed out of the room. Sarraut and de Monzie, spaniel-like Ministers of Education and Public Works, followed...
...impregnable defense was enough to win a modern war, in 1935 opposed military appropriations on that ground. This, and a creditable record during his eight weeks as Premier, were the best proof that he could find "new methods." With the illustrious Marshal to give advice and confidence, the dynamic Mandel to deal with weakness within, and dictator-wise Edouard Daladier to watch France's interests abroad, Premier Reynaud prepared to concentrate responsibility, rouse the nation from its Maginot psychology, give France decisive leadership for the inevitable counterattack...