Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sedan De Gaulle was made a general in command of a hastily assembled armored division. He held up the Germans for four days at Laon, fought fiercely at Abbeville (and it was there that his men first called him Le Général). After that Premier Paul Reynaud made him Under Secretary of State for Defense. General de Gaulle helped to persuade Premier Reynaud to continue the war-against the arguments for armistice of Weygand, Pétain and others-and he flew to London to tell Winston Churchill that France would see it through. Weygand refused...
William C. Bullitt sent a box of food to imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud. "I cannot send you guns," he wrote, "but here is some butter." Crotchety old Bachelor James C. McReynolds, longtime Supreme Court Justice, "adopted" 32 British children, one Belgian. Dorothy Thompson arrived in England for a month's visit "to see my friends . . . for pleasure . . . to know what the British are thinking." Expatriate Novelist Kay Boyle flew across from Lisbon with her family of seven-biggest family the Clippers have ever carried. Hollywood's No. 1 private, Jimmy Stewart, was promoted to corporal. Heywood Hale...
...Premier Paul Reynaud was allowed to leave his Vals-les-Bains prison under heavy guard to visit his ailing 94-year-old mother for a few hours. ∙∙ Dr. Alexis Carrel, last reported detained in Occupied France, is now reported by Vichy to be studying malnutrition in Belgium. ∙∙ Salvationist General Evangeline Booth's niece, Colonel Mary Booth, was found in a detention camp in southern Germany...
...rebuttal Churchill observed: "It was the sort of speech with which I imagine the illustrious and venerable Marshal Petain might well have enlivened the closing days of the Reynaud Cabinet. ..." There was loud laughter at this jibe...
...news of General Corap since the French collapse. One day last month, said a Government spokesman, General Corap turned up unexpectedly in Vichy, paid a surprise call on General Charles Huntziger, Minister of War. To General Huntziger he told his story, presented proofs. General Huntziger investigated, learned that Premier Reynaud's accusation was based on an unconfirmed report which he heard just half an hour before he went on the air last May. General Corap had repeatedly complained to General Maurice Gamelin, then in command of the French Army, that he lacked materiel and men to meet a German...