Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other words, Paris is primarily a job for a first-rate reporter and political analyst, and Laguerre feels that his staff has had considerable success in winnowing the real news from the political chaff that whirls through the French capital each week. A case in point was the disclosure (in TIME'S June 3, 1946 cover story on French Communist Party Boss Maurice Thorez) of the now accepted fact that there can be a split between the different Communist parties of the world over the issue of nationalism...
Afternoon of Fun. At this point Lieut. Colonel Thomas Lancer, U.S. provost marshal in Berlin, arrived in an olive drab staff car. "Now tell me what has happened here," Lancer told the Russian through an interpreter...
...Gaulle's blast had immediate effects. The French cabinet nervously asked London to postpone the official announcement. Field Marshal Montgomery, who had felt so sure of his appointment that he had prepared to resign as chief of the Imperial General Staff, was waiting in his new Surrey country house to hear whether or not he had a job. Never a popular general, Monty faced much opposition as "chairman" of Western Europe's command...
...from Belgium. Wrote Brussels' Communist Drapeau Rouge: "Belgian soldiers loathe Buckingham Palace parades. They are afraid Montgomery might force them to eat that horribly cooked British food." The U.S. was known to prefer General Juin; and Juin, who used to be General de Gaulle's chief of staff, flatly refused to serve under the proposed setup...
Madras has made prohibition a major crusade. There is a minister for prohibition in the provincial cabinet. A prohibition-enforcement staff college has recently been started, with a student body of 366 inspectors...