Word: richelieu
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...French achieved a nervous truce, but no agreement, last week with rebellious Annamites at Saïgon. Much to the relief of colonials, a respectable show of French force was possible: the battleships Richelieu and Triomphant had arrived. But in northern Indo-China, liberated and still occupied by the Chinese, native Viet Nam leaders crowed that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had personally promised them support...
...last week Nate Cummings sat in a new walnut-paneled office backed by a carved lion's head on the wall-the trademark of Reid, Murdoch's "Monarch" brand, which he now owns, along with the "Yacht Club" and Sprague, Warner's "Richelieu" and "None-Such...
...stately cupola of the Institut de France, some 20 Living Immortals buzzed away busily last week. In the most felicitous phrases of the world's most crystallized and elegant language, they were discussing the nuances of the word "art." They were the French Academy, founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635, the tangible concretion of the ineffable essence of French culture. Since 1935, unhurriedly, imperturbably, through World War II, the fall of France, the German occupation, and liberation, they had regularly donned their plumed bicornes and green-gold uniforms, regularly gathered to compile a new edition of their famed dictionary...
...milder among his opponents, he is a latter-day Richelieu, moving suavely and powerfully behind the scenes, establishing his own court favorites or giving the knife to those fallen from grace. Extreme critics have pictured him as a kind of Svengali, whose sinister influence covers sinister designs on the President and the country. Others say he is a man of no principles who simply acts through (and hides behind) his idolized principal, the President...
...Fighting Ships (new edition) credits it with six. That means a Jap battle line of eleven to 14 units. (The OWI struck a compromise, listing ten to 13.) The U.S. has 23 battleships in commission; Britain has at least 15 ; France has one modern ship of the line, the Richelieu, and one veteran; cobelligerent Italy (see FOREIGN NEWS) has two new ships and four modernized oldtimers...