Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, no longer protected by the shadow of the once-great Code Napoléon, Blum and Daladier were en route to Germany. Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel and General Gustave Gamelin had already joined General Maxime Weygand in Berlin, where a German "people's court"* awaited them...
...these disparate figures Radio Paris professed last week to find an essential likeness. On the feast day of St. Joan, harking back 500 years to British efforts to shackle France with the pro-English Duke of Burgundy, Radio Paris blatted: "In June 1940 Churchill asked Reynaud to unite France and Britain. What had been frustrated by Joan's sublime sacrifices, Churchill and Reynaud were about to realize. To frustrate the new plan there were just two men, Petain and Laval. . . . From Charles VII to Petain, from the Shepherdess of Lorraine to the son of Auvergne, the Englishman hasn...
...Bayonne, where the great Stavisky financial scandal had its origins, Jew-baiting Doriot, coatless and snapping his galluses, demanded immediate execution without trial of onetime Premiers Léon Blum and Paul Reynaud and onetime Minister of Interior Georges Mandel. He wanted their deaths as the first of a series of reprisals against civilian leaders who led France...
...best-armed army in the world will go under if the commanders don't know how to inspire the will to fight." With Gamelin mute, said he, the onus of war guilt was on political leaders, and, if so, where were the still-imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and ex-Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel...
...Besides being charged with war guilt, Paul Reynaud is accused of embezzlement, Mandel of high treason for trying to deal with the British after France fell. Also accused of war guilt is ex-Air Minister Pierre Cot, now researching a history of France in the Library of Congress at Washington...