Word: ral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five stars) greeted sensitive General Charles de Gaulle (two stars) at Maison Blanche airport near Algiers this week. The leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united France...
...ral. The man who heads Free France is an inexperienced politician, a bad salesman; he was a figure of little personal prestige a year ago. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, whom the Free French now call simply Le General, has a too-tall (6 ft. 4 in.) body, big hips, a small head and the undynamic appearance frequently found in big men. But he has the unique advantage of being the one Frenchman who knew what was wrong with the French Army...
...Germans broke through at Sedan De Gaulle was made a general in command of a hastily assembled armored division. He held up the Germans for four days at Laon, fought fiercely at Abbeville (and it was there that his men first called him Le Général). After that Premier Paul Reynaud made him Under Secretary of State for Defense. General de Gaulle helped to persuade Premier Reynaud to continue the war-against the arguments for armistice of Weygand, Pétain and others-and he flew to London to tell Winston Churchill that France would...
Vive le Général de Gaulle, ces officiers, ces soldats qui défendent la France dans le supréme honneur! Vive la France! Vive les bons Francais! Merci...
Record of Stewardship. In Poland, forbidden ground to foreign journalists since September 1939, the first year of Nazi stewardship resulted in two balance sheets. One, a glowing account of pacification and reconstruction, originated in Cracow, headquarters of the German Gouvernement Général. It announced that...