Word: ybarnegaray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Painful Exigencies. Stirring around in the chaotic confusion that after six weeks of peace still prevailed throughout unoccupied France, Minister for Youth and Family Jean Ybarnegaray attempted last week to extricate French youth. Aping the Nazis, he organized "Youth Groups," his goal being to build strong Frenchmen by sport, work and "directed, clean living while still young ... to prepare youth morally and physically to meet the painful exigencies of existence...
Every hour on the hour Paris radio broadcast bulletins, but there was little news beside the fact that in the crisis the Government had at long last achieved a "Union Sacree" of all parties by adding to the Cabinet Professor Louis Marin and Conservative Leader Jean Ybarnegaray from the extreme Right. Everyone who understood English tuned in the British Broadcasting Corp. Disturbing to many of the French was the BBC announcement that Winston Churchill had been made Prime Minister. In Paris his reputation is for recklessness. The French remember that in World War I the ghastly risks and losses...
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