Word: tricolors
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...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...
Spring breezes ruffled the sample ballots tacked (illegally) on doorways, fluttered the big tricolor badges of Senator Joe Guffey's busy Democratic heelers (mostly union men on holiday). But for the Republicans it was not a nice April day. Up & down Philadelphia, as all over the State, guttered a stream of G. O. P. grumbles...
...efficient is the French supply system was suggested last week by the gravity of the latest complaint of French troops, whose favorite game is Belote (similar to pinochle). Special tricolor playing cards issued to them taxfree, instead of having the usual French revenue stamp on the face of the ace of clubs, have written across the back of that card, "For exclusive use of troops in the field." You can no more play Belote than you can poker with marked cards...