Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delay, no substitutes, heavy, meaty, buttery meals in abundance. The Government fell with a thud the moment we arrived in Paris. Conversation at dinner stuck to who would be who next day. All were for Reynaud except Henri Bernstein, who considers him a man of such value that his premier-power should be kept for a tougher time...
...French Cabinet crisis-new Premier Paul Reynaud was just about to face risky test votes in Senate and Chamber-was postponed in spontaneous French agreement that now was no time to vote on whether France should again swap Premiers in midwar. Glad that Adolf Hitler had given it the excuse, Parliament went home for a week without voting...
...whole French press agreed with Premier Reynaud (and Winston Churchill-see p. 19) that Germany handicapped rather than helped herself economically by seizing Denmark and invading Norway. As M. Reynaud put it to the unanimously applauding Senate: "Once it has devoured its ephemeral booty, Germany can no longer be replenished by way of Denmark and Norway; those two windows looking on to the North are henceforth closed...
...nerves of Nazi statesmen had cracked, plunging the Reich into a course of naval and military recklessness. "They reverse their policy of not extending the conflict and extend it precisely into the field where we are immensely superior-into the sea-because they know they are cornered," exulted Premier Reynaud...
...Reynaud, a thrifty man, had a 21-year-old map in his office. Instead of buying a new one, he kept up with history by marking Germany's acquisitions in red chalk, Russia's in yellow. In the photograph Germany and Russia looked like one. The censor did not like it, ordered the map retouched. (In the first copies of the photograph of the Welles-Reynaud conversations which reached the U. S., the map was blanked out entirely.) L'Illustration, more concerned with art than geography, sketched in Europe's frontiers with considerable inaccuracy. The borders...