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Eleven fighting Frenchmen from the battleship Richelieu invaded Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon to wrench a soccer decision from Coach Jack MacDonald's men, 3 to 1. In the earlier Jayvee game, the B team beat Exeter...
...World War I, 850 officer POWs in the American camp at Richelieu (France) did not sing once during a whole year. But when they marched to the station September 1919, to return to Germany, a minority started a favorite song "Siegreich wollen wir Frankreich schlagen" ("Victorious we will beat the French...
People. Before his press conference, Franklin Roosevelt had spent a crowded week. Into his office had marched a long parade of visitors. Vice Admiral Raymond A. Fenard, 56, balding chief of the Giraud-ist French naval mission, had brought a model of the 35,000-ton French battleship Richelieu. Builder Henry J. Kaiser brought another model, of the new 514-ft. aircraft carriers that will roll off the ways of his Vancouver shipyards at the rate of six a month by the end of 1943. Bearing no gifts, but only urgent business, had come such men as Cordell Hull, Sumner...
Ever since the once-mighty French battleship Richelieu limped into New York harbor six weeks ago with other ships of the French Navy (TIME, Feb. 22), New Yorkers have sympathetically watched, wined, dined and entertained the French sailors cavorting on shore leave. Easily recognized by the red pompon on their blue caps, the sailors strolled arm in arm up & down Broadway; they crowded the tiny French restaurants in the East Fifties, chatting with waiters, bartenders, barflies. Some started learning a few simple words of English (see cut), some gave their blood to the Red Cross...
Events began to document decisions. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt spoke and to the U.S. came the first military consequence of Casablanca-the French battleship Richelieu (see p. 24). Also there came solemn warnings...