Word: reynaud
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...four years of German occupation was not enough to change that immutable fact. Two of the underground leaders in the Cherbourg area kept their government posts under the Germans, and shrewdly used their positions to build resistance for the day when resistance would count. Cherbourg's Mayor Reynaud served throughout the occupation, is now working closely with the Allied authorities...
...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...