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...mile sector east of Aachen, battlewise First Army troops found they could lunge instead of slog. They lunged upon Eschweiler, nearly midway between Aachen and Düren and astride the six-lane Adolf Hitler Highway to Cologne, only 28 miles away. There the battle turned fluid. More Germans rushed to that gap in their dike, launched weak, futile counterattacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: As In Normandy . . . | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Aachen was not only the first large German city (peacetime pop. 160,000) ever taken by U.S. troops, it was also the first formal surrender of German arms on German soil to foreign invaders since the Napoleonic Wars. Eastward, the Nazis sullenly prepared to defend Düren and Jülich on the way to Cologne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Historic Hour | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...reflected in the government. In De Gaulle's Cabinet were two Communists, grey, wiry Air Commissioner Charles Tillon, handsome Health Commissioner François Billoux. But the Cabinet also contained two right-wing extremists, the young, athletic Commissioner for Prisoners and Deportees, Henri Frenay and Transport Commissioner René Mayer, a onetime Rothschild confidant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolution by Law | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...quiet the clamor of the resistance movement for a bigger administrative role, De Gaulle reshuffled his Government twice within a fortnight. Most important changes: as Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Georges Bidault, president of the National Council of Resistance. (The former Foreign Commissioner, René Massigli, was appointed "Ambassador" to London.) As Commissioner of State, Jules Jeanneney, former President of the French Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Rebirth | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...Among industrialists arrested or marked for arrest: René Duchemin (French Employers Federation), JosephTrotard (Francolor, an I. G. Farben stooge). François Lehideux (auto magnate, ex-Vichy Production Minister), Hypolite Worms (banker). Others: René Fonck (World War I ace), Georges Grappe (Rodin Museum Curator), Albert Blaser (Director of Maxim's), Jean-Hérold Paquis (radio commentator), Bernard Faÿ (historian). Most of the Directors of the Bank of France were suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tally Ho! | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

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