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...sights and incidents along 2,000 miles of Europe's streets and roads, perhaps the most revealing was in a square in Metz where, about midnight, two Americans in a jeep paused to ask a bearded old man the road to Saarbrücken. He said he did not speak French. Nor German either. He was a Russian. One American who spoke Russian repeated the question. The old man could not help. He had fled Russia in 1920, had lived in Poland till 1939. When the Germans took it, he went to Germany. Later he drifted into France...
Solitary Confinement. Last May, a few days before the critical referendum which marked the surprise setback of Communism in France, Dewavrin was spirited away to solitary confinement in a Metz Army fortress. The Government's only explanation: Dewavrin had been guilty of "grave administrative faults...
General George S. Patton Jr. became the second American in history (first: General John J. Pershing) to be made an honorary citizen of Verdun. He was also made an honorary citizen of Metz, Reims, Chateau Thierry, Epernay, Toul, Sarreguemines, and the city of Luxembourg...
...received from President Truman the medal of the Legion of Merit. In return he presented Harry Truman with two gifts: 1) a painting of Benjamin Franklin (by Joseph Duplessis), which Francophile Franklin had given to a Parisian friend in 1770; 2) a large bronze medal from the city of Metz, commemorating its Allied liberation last November. At another ceremony, General de Gaulle conferred France's Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on Generals Marshall, Arnold and Somervell, Admirals Leahy and King. While he bussed them, they kept stiff upper lips...
...with whom he had secretly arranged to discuss surrender. They did not appear. Fearing betrayal, Kluge hurried back to his headquarters. Awaiting him there was an order to report to Hitler in Berlin. Kluge got into a car, swallowed poison and died on the way to an airfield near Metz...