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Howard I. Grossman 1L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Philip Kazon 2L, Rutland, Vt; Klaus Braun 2L, Wiesbaden, Germany; Sidney Werlin 2L, Malden; James H. Wilson Jr. 1L, Tifton, Ga.; Lawrence F. Ebb 1L, Dorchester; and Julius L. Shack 2L, Mattapan...
...change precisely paralleled the recent substitutions of Sir Alan Brooke for Lord Gort in the Army, of Sir Charles Portal for Sir Cyril Newall in the R. A. F. Tough "Jack" Tovey, lean and electric, is the man who, commanding the destroyer Onslow at Jutland, engaged first the cruiser Wiesbaden, then the battleship Derfflinger, with only his torpedoes and four-inch guns; stopped fighting only when a hail of shells from the German ships put him out of action...
...Germans for the past two months have been in no hurry to indicate the nature of the final settlement they will impose on the biggest nation they have whipped to date. While they dictated new boundaries for the Balkans and slowly turned more & more heat on Great Britain, the Wiesbaden deliberations were deliberately prolonged and France was left to wait her fate. France had to wait, but by last week it had become plain that France's colonies did not. The colonial parade to the defiant standard of General Charles de Gaulle* was in full swing...
Improvisations. In Wiesbaden, where the Armistice Commissions met daily, the French continued to plead for the evacuation of Paris...
...Marshal Petain held court in a corner of the lounge, ate behind a screen in the hotel dining room. Dark little Vice Premier Pierre Laval dashed off communiqués, handed them out personally in the lobby. Early each morning an airplane took off from Vichy, headed northeast toward Wiesbaden, Germany, where the Armistice Commission...