Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henri Rochette was sentenced to two years in prison, which he never served, fleeing to Mexico instead. During the War he turned up in the Verdun trenches, fighting under an assumed name. Later he appeared as a character in the Oustric bank failure. Last month French justice, smarting under charges of laxity in the Stavisky affair, hauled him into court, sentenced him again on his ancient swindle charge. In 15 years Henri Rochette has lost most of his spirit; he wanted only to be left alone. He lost his appeal last week. The original sentence of two years in jail...
...Minister of Colonies; Albert Sarraut, now Minister of the Interior; Louis Barthou, now Minister of Foreign Affairs. Republican idealists were more concerned over the fact that for the first time since the founding of the Third Republic the Cabinet contained two generals. Marshal Pétain, defender of Verdun, was the new Minister of War. General Victor Denain, onetime military aide to President Doumergue, is the new Minister for Air. The Cabinet of Premiers' first move was to announce that the plight of Austria was quite as vital to France as anything happening at home. Premier Doumergue and Ministers...
...prove that there must be a mistake, Henry Jones started to accompany Mme. Gauthier to the restaurant in order that he might assure her that he had not been in the establishment when her husband had lost his coat. A typical hot-headed Parisian woman, Mme, Gauthier babbled about Verdun, la France, the debt. A mob swarmed about Mr. Jones shouting: "Vive la France! A bas les etrangers!" Before Henrey Jones could devise a plan to escape the husterical crowd, he found himself accuses of being a spy and hustled off to jail by patriotic gendarmes...
...Henry Jones, solemn U. S. citizen temporarily resident in Paris while writing a cookbook designed to glorify French cuisine, is accused by a Frenchwoman of having walked off from a restaurant with her husband's coat. In the course of their parley a crowd collects. The spirit of Verdun and the iniquity of the War debts are mentioned, and by the time they have reached the Vive la France! stage the mob has grown to such threatening proportions that gendarmes arrive and escort Jones to prison. There it is assumed that he is a spy. Soon the affaire Jones...
...influence and circulation. Still there, at 55, his articles are syndicated by 50 U. S. and. foreign papers. Other books: They Shall Not Pass-Verdun, 1916, A History of the World War (5 vol.), Can Europe Keep the Peace...