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Word: verdun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been taking flying lessons for three weeks. Vichy announced that the centennial of World War I Premier Georges Clemenceau's birth (Sept. 28, 1841) would be ignored. Same day the burial place chosen by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was announced: the tomb at Douaumont where Verdun's unknown war dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...even reflected the French egalitarian spirit. Even as an officer in World War I he was a professed Royalist, often expressing dislike for liberalism and democratic institutions. In 1934 when the Fascist Croix de Feu attempted a coup d'etat, its demand was for the Hero of Verdun as head of Government. Again, in 1937 when the Cagoulards (Hooded Ones) were caught in what seemed a foolish revolutionary plot, their aim was to make Pétain dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Vichy Chooses | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...Darlan career has been chiefly a triumph of political luck and wangling. During World War I he obtained the command of 25 mobile naval guns ashore, fighting at the Somme and Verdun. He later explained that he had wanted the job because as a Navy officer under Army officers he would get more attention, attract more patronage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Vichy Chooses | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Mysterious chief of the Beggars is "Colonel Verdun," said to be a 43-year-old Army officer. He is supposed to direct the less spectacular activities, signaling British planes, guiding, sheltering and giving information to British agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Beggars Underground | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...French Ambassador has two busy aides in his press attaché, Captain Charles Emmanuel Brousse, bomber-squadron commander in World War I, and his longtime friend and assistant military attaché, one-eyed Lieut. Colonel Georges Bertrand-Vigne, another soldier of Verdun and Narvik. In addition he numbers among his good friends the elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Troubled Exiles | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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