Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tears. Five weeks later, Paris had fallen and Paul Reynaud's Government had fled to Tours. De Gaulle had the two stars of a brigadier (still his rank...
...Reynaud had made him Under Secretary for War, and he too retreated with the government to Tours...
...dismal old Loire chateau on June 13, the Ministers and the generals assembled to deliberate the fate of France. Reynaud presided, flanked by Pétain and Weygand. The rest gathered around the long table, with young General de Gaulle inconspicuously seated near the lower end. They had a distinguished visitor. Winston Churchill...
Died. Georges Mandel, 58, longtime French politico. Minister of the Interior in World War II; of undisclosed causes; in prison, somewhere in Germany. Born Jereboam Rothschild (no kin to the financiers), he was Clemenceau's trouble-shooter in World War I held other portfolios before joining Paul Reynaud's doomed cabinet...
Look Out, Jock. Sheean got to Paris just before the Nazis. He saw the confusion that centered around Helene de Portes, Premier Reynaud's mistress, whom Sheean believes to have been the shrewish organizer of defeat. In Britain, Sheean walked past the workmen stringing barbed vire around the Houses of Parliament. "So it's come to this, has it?" said Lady Diana Cooper, "in that curiously husky voice;" Inside Parliament Sheean heard history made by "a colorless voice." It was Clement Attlee reading the one-sentence law which declared that for the duration all persons and property were...