Word: taining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's doorstep? Had he considered the possible consequences? Premier Laval was polite. He had considered. . . . Mais non. Without political guarantees from Germany, there was nothing more he could do. Ambassador von Hoesch left and Premier Laval had another, slightly sinister interview with two other gentlemen: Marshals P�tain and Lyautey, commanders of the French Army...
...good a Roman Catholic as was his patron Marshal Ferdinand Foch who used to speak of him as "Max, my spiritual son." Last week as the climax of a long and masterly campaign of military intrigue (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), General Weygand forced out Marshal Pétain and assumed the office which carries with it supreme command of the French Army. This office has a highly technical title: "Vice President of the Higher War Council." More imposing sounds the office from which bowlegged Max was promoted: "Chief of the General Staff...
...work Marshal Pétain, 74, gracefully out of his post last week and make room for General Weygand, 64, the War Ministry declared that "Marshal Pétain has sought retirement for several years," but that even now he cannot be spared. He was asked last week "to contribute his great experience and high authority to a new task as difficult as it is delicate." The task: to arrange coordination between the Ministries of Air, War and Navy in such a way as to provide in war time a complete and rational air barrier around the whole of France...
Oddly enough, General Weygand, who will not tackle this job but will leave it to Marshal Pétain, is one of the best co-ordinators French militarism has ever produced. His star turn during the War was to mingle with and co-ordinate the "allied" military leaders who so easily quarreled with the French command to which they were subordinate under Generalissimo
...doctors may employ it to cure human disease. Sir Chandrasekhara Ven kata Raman discovered in 1928 that when monochromatic light shines on a trans parent substance like quartz, chloroform, water, the wavelength of some of the scattered light is changed. Thus what was originally a pure yellow may con tain green, blue. This is now known as the Raman effect, has been used as a proof of the new quantum theory of light...