Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...partner in, not a victim of, Japan's aggression. Unofficially, restaurants began calling Vichyssoise "De Gaulle soup." There was no question of U.S. "recognition" of Free France, since Free France is not a government, but General de Gaulle's chief civilian aide, tall, gaunt René Pleven, was urging aid under the Lend-Lease Act in order to convince Frenchmen in France that the U.S. is behind De Gaulle and his forces of liberation...
...French Equatorial Africa De Gaulle got results. He sent René Pleven there. René Pleven was a zealot for continuing the fight. After he had pointed out that Equatorial Africa depends for its livelihood on the British-controlled coastline, after he had told the inhabitants what would happen to their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...