Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Easter Sunday, at the Government-sponsored unveiling of a plaque in Strasbourg Cathedral to the American dead in Alsace, De Gaulle appeared as hero. Thousands jammed the rainswept streets to cry "De Gaulle au pouvoir!" (De Gaulle to power!). In the presence of U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, De Gaulle said: "If a new tyranny should ever menace all or part of the world, we may be certain that the U.S. and France would be together to oppose...
...next day, as a private citizen, De Gaulle spoke more explicitly to a packed square before Strasbourg's City Hall. He cried: "It is time that a grouping or rally [rassemblement] of the French people is organized, which, within the legal framework, will be able to cause ... the profound reform of the state...
...France, where smuggling was somewhat less effective, cigarets (worth $15 U.S. a carton) were an international language. One Salazar Teofilo, a young Spaniard, was arrested last week while doing a land-office cigaret business in the semidarkness of the Strasbourg-St. Denis méetro station. Police soon discovered that Teofilo did not speak one word of French. Through an interpreter they learned that he had entered France clandestinely from Spain five months ago, had grossed 60,000 francs ($500) a week on the magic of the only three words he knew outside his native Spanish: "Camels, Luckies, Chesterfields...
...lack of coal and industrial energy has been one of the insurmountable obstacles to French reconstruction, Professor Georges Gurvitch of the University of Strasbourg stated last night in Emerson...
Thirty-six out of 93 departments rejected the Constitution. It was adopted in such leftist strongholds as Marseilles and Lille, voted down in the rightist bastions of Paris, Bordeaux, Strasbourg...