Word: vichyman
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Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad came to grips with the postwar world in Paris. For her first big postwar concert outside Norway (where her husband died in prison, charged with collaboration), she was booked into the theater where ex-Vichyman Alfred Cortot had played the piano to mixed cheers and boos (TiME, Jan. 27). When Flagstad walked onstage, the crowd was silent a moment-then broke into applause. To more applause, and tumultuous cheers, she sang some Grieg songs, and excerpts from Wagner in German. Said Flagstad, heading for London: "My conscience is clear...
...ranked in importance with the appointment last week of cool, tough career Diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 57, ex-Ambassador to Brazil, as U.S. envoy to Paris, with the rank of ambassador. Forthwith the French gaily opened up their big, chateau-shaped Embassy in Washington, closed since the 1942 departure of Vichyman Gaston Henri-Haye. Paris should be a hot diplomatic spot, which will be no novelty to Careerist Caffery, who has served U.S. interests abroad through six administrations. A Louisianian who studied to be a lawyer, Caffery went to work for the State Department when he was 24. He has since...
...young (54) general's name was once connected in the press with the Rightist Cagoulards. He served Vichy as military commander in Tunisia and later at Montpellier, French military district on the Mediterranean. While still considered a "safe" Vichyman, General de Lattre de Tassigny turned and snapped at the hand that lay heavy on France...
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