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STAGES ON LIFE'S WAY - Søren Kierkegaard-Princeton...
What happened in Gabon last week was not too clear. Vichy said British light cruisers from Bathurst shelled Libreville, Gabon's capital, for hours to prepare for a landing by Free French forces under General René de Larminat, Chief of Staff of the French Army in Syria before France fell. The British denied any shelling, but said they had forced the ocean-going French submarine Poncelet to be scuttled off Gabon. Vichy said Libreville's attackers, who landed on both sides of the town and surrounded it, were French colonial troops from garrisons in Equatorial Africa...
WINSTON CHURCHILL-René Kraus-Lippincott...
...leadership in prosperity, offered him leadership in disaster. He offered them "toil and blood and tears." In its extremity the nation seemed to recognize for the first time that the whole life of this man, whom it had hated and defamed, was a preparation for this task. This week René Kraus* described that long preparation from Churchill's premature birth (1874) to his belated appointment as Prime Minister last...
...when two policemen came to his Paris apartment and notified him to join his unit. "This time," said the officer, "it means business." His wife José, Pierre Laval's daughter, took him to the Gare de l'Est and business began. Business for René de Chambrun was to be conducted with the 162nd Régiment d'Infanterie de Forteresse, 140 steps down in the Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like a sunken battleship, the fortress throbbed eight hours a day as Diesels pumped in air and light...