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Land Fleets. When German mechanized columns plunged through Poland last September, the French Army, thanks partly to Paul Reynaud, had five mechanized divisions behind her Maginot Line, as well as many battalions of 11 to 15 ton tanks assigned to work with infantry divisions. During the long, dull winter the French sped up their tank production...
...able to get along with the politicians of the French Government, admitted failure, and a shake-up in the High Command became inevitable. Prime Minister Churchill (who named the fight then raging "The Battle of the Bulge") flew to Paris for a meeting of the Allied War Council. Premier Reynaud announced that the moment had come for "a change of men and methods." He called Marshall Pétain, hero of Verdun, to be his adviser, himself took charge of the Defense Ministry...
Last fortnight this prophecy came colossally true, and its author, Paul Reynaud occupied the unenviable post of Premier of France and Minister of Defense...
...years the old man has been talked of as the man to rally a united France. Times had never been worse than they were last week when the legendary defender of France, firm and erect at 83, returned from his Ambassadorship to Spain to become Vice Premier in Paul Reynaud's Cabinet. "He will remain until final victory," announced M. Reynaud. The white-mustached oldster was to act as special military counselor to the Premier...
...vital Ministry of the Interior Premier Reynaud appointed energetic, 54-year-old Georges Mandel, till then Minister of Colonies. This was no new job for the sharp-nosed, stocky little Clemencist, who as the Tiger's chef de cabinet during the last war ran the country's domestic affairs and kept up civilian morale. Born Jeroboam Rothschild, Mandel has often been called France's Disraeli, is a super-politician in a country of politicians, lately showed in the Colonial (and Post Office) Ministry that he had lost none of the drive and administrative flair that made...