Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prewar France. He branched out into magazines, brought out Marie-Claire, and in 1938, on the heels of LIFE's success in the U.S., converted a struggling sports magazine, Match, into a thriving picture weekly. Prouvost went into politics with less success, was Minister of Information in the Reynaud government (1940) and briefly held the same job under Collaborationist Petain. When the Nazis invaded France, they killed his two magazines but turned
Hand of Poker. More than 100 amend ments to the New Deal had already been submitted by special interests. The wine lobby, the distillers, the civil servants, the farmers-all had their champions popping up to defend their privileges. Wartime Premier Paul Reynaud, an old-fashioned financier, was alarmed. The plan, he said, is "as vague as it is irreproachable." "If I understand you correctly," Reynaud said, "your scenario is like this: you open the frontiers, and there is a massive invasion of foreign goods. There is a terrible shock, and you pick up the wounded at the expense...
...Reynaud's biggest worry was that the New Deal might cut military expenses to win economic gains. "For eight years you have been in opposition," he told Mendès-France, "and often you have made it plain that you would save money by reducing military expenditure. Are you betting the peace of the world on the good will of the Kremlin or on the defensive alliance of the Atlantic? I am among those who will not agree to gamble the survival of France on a hand of poker...
...Paris in 1940, Correspondent Reynolds handed a French government official a cable, which said: "Dear Uncle Franklin: I am having difficulty getting accredited to the French army. Time is important. Would you phone or cable Premier Reynaud and ask him to hurry things up. It was grand of you to phone me last night. Please give my love to Aunt Eleanor. Quent." As Reynolds had hoped, the French official promptly accredited him. But to Reynolds' embarrassment the official also volunteered to dispatch the cable to President Roosevelt, whom Reynolds had never even met. Explained Reynolds in a Manhattan court...
Born. To Paul Reynaud, 75, Premier of France at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1940, now one of three Vice Premiers under Premier Joseph Laniel, and his second wife. Christiane Mabire Reynaud, 40, his onetime secretary: their third child (his fourth, a son; in Paris. Name: Alexandre. Weight...