Word: marcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal balked, demanded to know by what authority his Vice Premier had arranged for him to leave unoccupied France. Laval replied that his portfolio of Foreign Affairs gave him authority to deal with Germany, insisted that Petain make the trip. Minister of the Interior Marcel B. Peyrouton, who recently created a Groupe de Protection for the Marshal after the pattern of Hitler's Elite Guard, asked for a specific guarantee of Pétain's liberty after he arrived in occupied France...
...leather helmets and arm bands, appeared in the streets of Vichy. One hundred soldiers of the French Army surrounded the Hotel du Pare, where Laval was staying. Then three officers of the Surete Nationale entered the hotel. When they emerged, Pierre Laval was with them. He was placed in Marcel Peyrouton's own automobile and driven nobody would say where...
They variously saw: a French declaration of war on Britain; cession of the French Fleet to Germany; occupation of free France by the Germans; replacement of Petain by such outright pro-Germans as French Fascist Jacques Doriot, Pierre Etienne Flandin (notorious for cabling Hitler congratulations after Munich), Marcel ("Die for Danzig?") Deat, Super-Cop Adrien Marquet; use of French naval bases by the German Fleet; surrender to Germany of the League of Nations mandate over Syria; cession of Alsace-Lorraine, French Morocco, Tunisia, the Riviera; German use of French native troops in Equatorial Africa to take the Sudan from...
...case of Harry Bridges, Australian head of the West Coast longshoremen, notes in this connection well-known Communist plans to tie up and sabotage U. S. shipping during wartime. He also declares that C. I. O.'s Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, of which "avowed Communist" Marcel Scherer is head, has cells in seven U. S. Navy yards...
...School the Kirkpatrick scholarship was given to Engene H. Cavin 1L., of Galveston, Tox., Research fellowship to Marcel deBaer, Grad. L., of Bouchout, Belgium, and the Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship to Lawrence M. Levinson 3L., of Miami...