Word: weygand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weygand looked like a little rat in a trap -caught. Petain looked like a great old image. Darlan trying to show the bluff sailor. And the politicians snatching at everything. I thought they were a hopeless...
...General Weygand, then 73, France's CinC, a defeatist of another stamp. Active, shrill, offensive in argument, Weygand believed, like "French professional officers generally," that "their army alone excelled in war, that fundamentally [the British] were not soldiers." It followed that only a lunatic could believe that the British could win against an enemy who had already beaten the French...
...alternatives is on among those EDC opponents who accept a controlled German rearmament if only it could be achieved without any controls on France. Some might vote for EDC if the supranational clauses would not immediately be put into effect. Others spin variations on a plan of General Maxime Weygand's for an international but not supranational Defense Council of Europe, under NATO, to include not only the Germans, but the British and Scandinavians too. The difficulty in these plans is that most would require a renegotiation with the other five nations of EDC, and some would require such...
Dentists Have Uses. Navarre made his way to General Weygand in North Africa and became his chief of intelligence. He harassed to distraction the Italian Fascists who came in as members of the armistice commission. In order to persuade the Italians that they needed bodyguards, Navarre's hommes lourds (heavy men) clubbed and beat up the Italians in the dark. Navarre installed microphones in the Fascists' telephones and overheard their most confidential plans...
German section of the French army's G-2 at the outbreak of World War II. After the fall of France, he joined General Weygand in North Africa, but soon returned to France and went underground. By 1943 he was running the intelligence service of the "French Army Resistance Organization." When the U.S. forces landed in southern France, Navarre joined them, fought in the liberation of France, later led a regiment of mounted Spahis in De Lattre's Rhin et Danube army. He was seven times cited for bravery, wears the Croix de Guerre and Resistance Medal with...