Word: mistral
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Down from the bald crags of France's "azure coast"-between Nice and Marseille-blows the angry mistral. It is a strong, dry wind, so bitter that it burns like cold steel...
Plugging along at a good clip, with a night mistral lashing her buttocks, the Italian motor ship Orazio last week made for Barcelona. She lay 38 miles south of Toulon. Below decks slept 412 passengers -an aviator with his two small children, four nuns warm in their cotton gowns, the noble counselor of the Italian Embassy in Chile, merchants, soldiers, teachers, tourists. On the bridge the petty officers mumbled against French wind, and against the French contraband authorities who had detained the Orazio four hours to search her and take off some Germans. Captain Michele Schiano was a happy...
Following the distress signals, Italian naval planes, flying across the mistral, found the Orazio, gave her position to several nearby vessels. But it was late afternoon before the first reached her. By that time she was a furnace in the wind-passengers later swore that from the lifeboats they could see her ribs silhouetted and the sea boiling against her red-hot plates...
...there is a difference in the Daladier and Coolidge personalities. Edouard Daladier was born near Avignon in Provence 49 years ago, son of a baker. Though Edouard Daladier was no Separatist, a friend of his boyhood was the late great Poet Frederic Mistral, reviver of the Provencal language. Desiring to be a schoolteacher, Edouard Daladier entered a normal school and studied under a plump vomit: man whose career was to parallel his from then on: Edouard Herriot...
...blue-clad, blue-capped gendarmes landed from the mainland under command of General Fournier. The General's first move was to commandeer the largest table in the Cafe Napoleon, swankiest cafe in Ajaccio, only one with a plate-glass screen to protect the customers on the terrace from the mistral. He ordered two bottles of Byrrh for the use of the staff, and spread out his maps. His troops were divided into three columns and sent to scour the island...