Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...democratic France the parliamentary rumpus stirred up by this forced the Premier to promise not to use these powers after November 15 without a further mandate from Deputies and Senators. Daladier had previously been voted confidence 535-to-75 by the Chamber, after keynoting: "All Frenchmen must now consider themselves permanently mobilized in the service of Peace. . . . We hope to substitute legal practices for solutions by force. ... In the interests of Peace, we propose to add to old and tried friendships some that are new or renewed...
...Frenchmen were grimly convinced last week that Germany was in the very last stages of preparation for a war which Adolf Hitler would decide to fight now or later. On August 15, the 52 divisions of the German Army had begun a month of divisional training. Corps maneuvers in the 18 corps areas were under way this week. But it was agonizingly plain to those on the opposite side of the Rhine that Germany was not merely engaged in normal autumn military exercises...
Heavy trucks rumbled into Paris and dumped sand at points where it would be handy to shovel into bags for bomb shelters. Some 1,200,000 Frenchmen were with the colors, for in France also, recruits whose training period ended with August received no permission to return home. The whole of the vast steel and cement subterranean Maginot Line was more fully manned than ever before. General Edouard Réquin, in command of the Maginot Line, was abruptly promoted to the Superior War Council and several other high army commanders were given new key posts by Premier Daladier...
This week the German Dictator, in what Frenchmen saw as a most tactless gesture, came with a glittering retinue of generals to inspect Nazi war defenses on the bank of the Rhine directly across from Alsace-Lorraine. Sir Neville Henderson, the British Ambassador to Germany, abruptly flew to London and the I. S. Ambassador to Germany, Hugh Wilson flew to Paris. Mr. Wilson conferred with U. S. Ambassador to France, William Christian Bullitt, and to join them U. S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, broke off his vacation on the Riviera. Top-rank diplomats do not thus dash about unless...
...Reform ahead of Recovery. Premier Daladier calculated that with living costs rising, millions of French workers would rather increase their earnings by working 48 hours (with 10% overtime after 40 hours as offered by the Premier) than cling to the 40-hour week. Secondly, the Premier counted on most Frenchmen, irrespective of party, being able to see last week the military necessity of raising French production, thereby also strengthening France's financial position by increasing Government revenues...