Word: nord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 1940 a tired refugee and his wife got off a train at the Gare du Nord in Paris and proceeded to the sumptuous Hotel Crillon. They were Herr and Frau Thyssen. Emery Reves, president of Co-operation Publication Co. (international newspaper syndicate), persuaded him to write and publish his memoirs. Reves, Thyssen, a collaborator and a secretary went to Monte Carlo. Thyssen, says Reves, dictated three solid hours every day, then revised and approved the copy...
...British and French. "Certainly not. . . . They're not our allies." He added: "It's just another agony to fear what cannot be prevented or conquered." Nazi warplanes caught up with Miss Boothe in Brussels; she fled to Paris. It was Maytime. "Now at the Gare du Nord and the Gard de 1'Est, where the trains come in from the north, you could very clearly hear the sobs of the refugees. . . . They came off the trains with their bewildered faces, white faces, bloody faces, faces beaten out of human shape by the Niagaras of human tears that...