Word: poilu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Raymond Leopold Bruckberger, a French Dominican friar, is an explosive combination of scholar, priest and chevalier: a contemplative and cultured man who has also done violent deeds with machine gun and typewriter. In World War II, Father Bruckberger enlisted as a poilu, later volunteered for the French Commandos. He was seriously wounded, twice captured by the Germans (both times he managed to get away) and became Chaplain General of the Resistance. At the liberation of Paris, while German snipers were still firing inside the Cathedral of Notre Dame, he welcomed General de Gaulle into the church for a service...
...depends to the last poilu's gaiter on the reconciliation of its two chief partners: France and Germany. It is at French insistence that the West imposes nettlesome restrictions on German sovereignty. Theoretically because West Germany is a "strategically exposed area," chiefly because of French fears, the Germans are forbidden to manufacture atomic, biological and chemical weapons. They would be allowed to recruit an 85,000-man air force, but not to make airplanes. They may build guided missiles-but only for short-range use: the British, remembering what Hitler's V-2s did to London, vetoed long...
...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...