Word: poilu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growing impatience among Americans to 'cross the gap' and get it over with and return home. British Tommies are happy to have avenged Dunkirk, but now they want to see German homes in ruins, as homes in England were when many of them left. The French poilu is impatient to prove that he has a special vengeance; he is going to be a tough customer for the Boche. All of these men are looking north and waiting...
...opposite numbers for these CBS flashes, NBC has as its permanent staff a talented trio headed by tall, cadaverous Max Jordan, veteran London representative Fred Bate, and French-born, ex-poilu Paul Archinard. Number three U. S. network, MBS, is headed by John Steele in London, by Waverley Root in France, depends on space-rate orators like veteran Newshen Sigrid Schultz in Berlin and hard-working Arthur Mann, now covering the R. A. F. Both NBC and CBS have their European correspondents on the air regularly for two 15-minute periods daily...
Chestnuts are budding. Chevalier has had a big "war come-back" extolled by poilu and highbrow alike. The French Army's Tipperary is lilting, traditional and very moving...
From this poilu's note, the censor of Secteur Postal 390 had excised not a line...