Word: perthus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Leahy drove toward the silent town, through war-stricken countries where life was at a low ebb. He had left the cruiser Tuscaloosa at Barcelona, had driven through the mountains to Le Perthus, where only 23 months ago masses of defeated Loyalists jammed the narrow roads trying to reach the border. When he arrived at Lyon a special railway car was waiting. The diplomatic Admiral, long-faced, forceful, tactful, had come a long way to enter the world's most perplexing diplomatic labyrinth. It was a France in which most Frenchmen believed that their fate depended...
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