Word: rieder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witnesses for the bride were the French Army's taut, terrier-like Chief of Staff General Max Weygand and equally intense onetime Premier and present Minister Without Portfolio André Tardieu. About all that gallant Paris correspondents permitted themselves to say of the bridegroom, M. Antoine Rieder, was that he had as his witness the Military Governor of Paris, grim-browed General Henri Gouraud...
According to Bridegroom Rieder, his spouse fooled the Germans by means of duplicate carts of hay having horses exactly alike. In the second cart under the hay lay Allied men about to be smuggled out across the lines. After German soldiers had probed the first cart with pitchforks, Heroine van Houtte, then 24 and passing for a buxom peasant lass, contrived that the Germans should not notice while the second cart was driven ahead of the first...