Word: tricolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange parade. Hundreds of snails crept through the streets. They were smeared under the wheels of traffic; they squished under the boots of Nazi troops, who finally pressed snickering Frenchmen into service as street cleaners. Across the shell of every snail was painted the red, white & blue of the Tricolor...
...Petain's Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu lashed out furiously at the underground Communist Party in both zones of France. Warned he: "[We] will not permit a political group that was most bellicose before the war, but defeatist throughout the war, now to wrap itself in the Tricolor and provoke incidents between the people and occupation troops on the pretext of patriotism...
...Damascus, was no bargain either. Before it, the British lost eight armored vehicles, and were considerably pushed about in counterattacks. General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme, who is Free French General Georges Catroux's director of field operations, suffered a broken arm from a bomb dropped by a tricolor-bearing plane. There was, however, some comedy...
...their lives. The commander dispatched two airplanes ashore with an invitation to surrender. The planes did not return. General de Gaulle and some aides-including Captain Bécourt Foch, grandson of the late Marshal-boarded a launch and made for the basin, waving a white flag and a tricolor. They were greeted by gunfire, and two aides were wounded. General de Gaulle boarded his flagship and signaled an ultimatum. Dakar rejected it. From Vichy, Minister of the Navy Admiral Jean Darlan wired: "Remember the words of Joan of Arc, that 'peace is won only at the point...
...Southampton one night last week steamed the 6,127-ton French liner Meknès. She flew the tricolor and had it painted large upon her sides, for she was carrying back to France 1,300 French naval officers & men who had decided not to fight further with Britain against Germany...