Word: morand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul Morand, high-toned novelist (Ouvert la Nuit; Fermé la Nuit), became Vichy Ambassador at Budapest, then at Bern-where he prudently remains...
...Comité des Ecrivains (authors' association) publicly denounced: Paul Morand, ex-Vichy Ambassador to Bucharest; pro-German Novelists Jean Giono, Louis Ferdinand Céline (Louis Destouches), Journalists Henry de Montherlant, Jacques Chardonne...
...architect than Adolf Hitler. A brave letter appeared in Figaro: "Paris, which in June of 1940 miraculously escaped trial by fire and the horror of destruction, is unexpectedly menaced by new destruction." The letter was signed by a group of intellectuals and painters, including Jean Giraudoux, Paul Valery, Paul Morand, Jean Cocteau, Andre Derain. The man in the street, passing the wreckers at work, simply muttered: "Regardez-moi ces assassins," and looked, as he seldom looked in the years of freedom, at the soaring crags of the Eiffel Tower, which the Nazis had threatened to tear down for the sake...