Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orders, De Lattre was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at Riom. His wife smuggled him a small metal saw hidden in a bunch of flowers and a ten-yard rope wrapped in his laundry. He escaped, went underground and, hiding behind a freshly grown beard, made his way to London and Algiers, where he joined De Gaulle's Free French. He took over Army "B" (later the French First Army), landed it in the south of France and took it up the Rhone valley to the Rhine and the Danube. The First became proudly known as the "Rhine...
Luchaire was well prepared as an advocate of French-German reconciliation. His father had served Briand at the League of Nations, his stepmother was Stresemann's secretary and biographer. Jean's wife waved the flag of rapprochement in her own way: she became Stresemann's mistress, took Jean's daughter Corinne to Germany with her. Little Corinne so charmed Stresemann's friend, Banker Kurt von Schroeder, that the rich old man took her into his home...
...Naziism would help him realize it. Eagerly, he went back to Paris. This time he had 350,000 francs a month expense money from the Nazis. He used it to subsidize pro-German writers, to make himself the intimate acquaintance of powerful French politicians and industrialists. He paved the way for Munich and the failure of French arms...
...strength of Mr. Churchill's language is in inverse ratio to his knowledge. It is unfortunate that his words are taken at their face value in other countries. They don't realize that that is just Winnie's way." Attlee was so pleased at this passage that he glanced challengingly at the blazing sun, then set his soft black felt hat on his head and resumed. The Tory platform, he said, was "one of the most dishonest documents I have ever read...
Zaim's model seems to be neither Mussolini nor Franco, but Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the maker of modern Turkey. Damascus, until recently one of the most orthodox Moslem capitals in the Middle East, is yielding fast to modern influences. Zaim helped show the way by taking his wife to a cocktail party-a step almost unheard of in Syria. The Moslem veil for women is gradually disappearing and the men's traditional tarbush (red fez) has been going out of style ever since Zaim began appearing at official ceremonies without...