Word: tillon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Security for Zoé? At this heady point a sobering word came from famed Physicist Dr. Frédéric Joliot-Curie, who tends France's atomic pile, known as "Zoe," at Fort de Châtillon. It was "nonsense," he said, to claim Saint-Sylvestre's uranium strike as the world's richest. The Belgian Congo fields were yielding a 50% ore. However, Saint-Sylvestre's pitchblende deposits, though not yet fully explored, were of major importance. They might keep Zoé going without imports...
Moreover, Minister of the Interior Edouard Depreux had announced the capture of illegal arms stocks near Paris, and admitted that arms, in small quantities, were hidden "all over the place." The arms captured had disappeared from Air Ministry depots at a time when Communist Charles Tillon was Air Minister...
President de Gaulle had worked out a fragile compromise which postponed rather than solved the issue. He himself took a new overall Ministry of National Defense; under him, Communist Charles Tillon held a Ministry of Armaments. Interior went to Socialist Adrien Tixier...
...division in the country was reflected in the government. In De Gaulle's Cabinet were two Communists, grey, wiry Air Commissioner Charles Tillon, handsome Health Commissioner François Billoux. But the Cabinet also contained two right-wing extremists, the young, athletic Commissioner for Prisoners and Deportees, Henri Frenay and Transport Commissioner René Mayer, a onetime Rothschild confidant...