Word: menton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. André Tardieu, 68, bustling three-time Premier of France (1929, 1930, 1932), last surviving French signer of the Treaty of Versailles; after long illness; in Menton, France (according to the Swiss radio). Once known as "L'Américain" for his blunt, go-getting ways, he said before the war that Germany "neither wants nor is able to make...
...Last week's chief affair of state was the establishment of diplomatic relations with Vichyfrance. By the country from whom Italy once expected to receive Nice, Corsica and Tunis, she was given only the frontier town of Menton, where the zone of occupation ends at a row of pavilion lavatories...
Newspapers reported that she knits for the poor, that she was kissed by an ape at Dr. Voronoff's monkey farm near Menton, France, that young female operagoers at the Met banded themselves into "Lily Pons Fans," in imitation of the "Gerry-flappers" of Soprano Farrar 20 years ago. A Maryland town, whose chief industry is water lilies and goldfish, eight years ago publicized itself as well as the diva by taking the name Lilypons. The full flowering of this pun occurred when Lily Pons sang to the lily ponds, while politicos, from Maryland's Governor on down...
...Britain and France took precautions all around the Mediterranean. In Malta, Enrico Mizzi, Nationalist leader of the Council of Government, and a Catholic Actionist named Herbert Ganado were interned. In Cairo and Alexandria 700 fifth-columnist suspects were clapped into internment camps. An evacuation caravan took civilians away from Menton on the French-Italian frontier, prepared to evacuate Monte Carlo next...