Word: maurine
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Archimbaud actually said. As Rapporteur of the Military Budget, M. Archimbaud is one of the five French civilians privileged to know the Army's secrets. His party is the Radical Socialist, largest in the Chamber. Deputies leaped to their feet with spontaneous cheers and War Minister General Maurin smiled grimly as Rapporteur Archimbaud reached the climax of his careful statement: "Reichsführer Adolf Hitler has tried to set against Soviet Russia her natural enemies-Poland and Japan. Realizing that this might endanger the peace of Europe, Russia and France have wished to safeguard their liberty. It is undeniable...
...Premier tried hardest to get Marshal Pétain, but the Marshal refused to stay on as War Minister. "I am old, I am tired, and I am no parliamentarian," said Pétain. But he approved Premier Flandin's second choice of brilliant General Louis Felix Thomas Maurin as War Minister...