Word: reynaud
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...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...
...been held at Riom, charged with the guilt of France's destruction. Now, with their trial fixed for Jan. 15, they were sped by automobile south to Portalet Fortress. There, two days later, they were joined by two other statesmen of the French Republic: Georges Mandel and Paul Reynaud...
...loading sheds, etc. Right next to this field, and probably later to be included in it, is another one built by Air France for its Paris-Buenos Aires run. From it Savoia-Marchettis of the Italian Lati line this week still took off for Rome. A hulking Frenchman named Reynaud, in charge of this field, likes to remember how the big Air France boats used to go through every few days with gifts for him, fresh vegetables from Argentina, wine and fruit from Dakar. Since France fell, he has not even received his salary. (Pan Am's Natal chief...
...exchange envoys, the Nazis sending consuls not only to Paris, but to Lyon and Marseille as well. And Marshal Henri Philippe Petain finally did something about the men whom Vichy blames for France's defeat-General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Premiers Edouard Daladier, Leon Blum and Paul Reynaud, former Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel. The Marshal ordered them moved from various jails to a new jail in the Pyrenees fort of Col du Pourtalet, there to await the trial they have already awaited for twelve months...
...Lamarr invented a remote-control device the Government termed secret and "promising." The Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service set Private Mary Churchill to scrubbing steps after Father Winston asked "no favors." Paris papers predicted that General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud would be moved to a fortress prison for trial at war's end. Marshal Pétain harvested his grapes at Villeneuve-Loubet on the Côte d'Azur. A Fight For Freedom audience of 17,000 cheered when Wendell L Willkie and William S. Knudsen denounced...