Word: reynaud
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Then Marie, having given the Socialists what they wanted, tried to get them to deliver what he needed-their support for Finance Minister Paul Reynaud's emergency economic program...
...Congress of Europe, as it called itself, some 600 delegates had thronged. Among them were hundreds of parliamentarians and a few ex-premiers (Churchill himself, France's Paul Reynaud and Paul Ramadier), but none was present in any official capacity and none traveled on government funds. There were exiles from Spain and from the French zone of Germany; from Red-blighted Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Finland. The vast majority of all delegates were shabby; frayed cuffs and soiled collars were conspicuous...
...studied law, built up a successful practice in Metz. When Lorraine was returned to France in 1919, he was elected deputy from his district, and has been reelected ever since. The first to "discover" him was wartime Premier Paul Reynaud, who made him Undersecretary for Refugees in 1940. At one point during the war, Schuman was kept in solitary confinement by the Germans. "It did not leave me bad memories," he says. "I meditated...
Invited to his party this week were Lazareff Friends Prince Peter of Greece, ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, Mistinguett, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Cocteau, Cinema Producers Marcel Pagnol and René Clair, dozens of writers, Cabinet Ministers, deputies and generals. They could toast Lazareff as one of the few journalists who had lived through, without being stained by, the venal days of France's prewar press. They also could toast a proved proposition : that journalistic honesty can pay off in France...
Skinned Alive. Chicago-born Novelist Mary Borden (Mary of Nazareth, etc.) knew him well. Her husband, Major General Sir Edward L. Spears, went to France in 1940 as Winston Churchill's special liaison officer with Premier Reynaud. When he returned to England with De Gaulle after the fall of France, "almost no one in France or Great Britain knew [De Gaulle's] name; nor did the French in England receive him kindly...