Word: jeanneney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said courtly Jules Jeanneney, 81, last President of the French Senate: "The Marshal failed us. ... The armistice was an irreparable error. . . . But let us admit we had no other choice." (Suddenly the Marshal heard quite well, bowed warmly to the witness...
...General sat on the Government bench in the Consultative Assembly. Up for debate came the issue of the purge of collaborationists. Socialist Assemblyman Louis Nogueres shouted an accusation: Minister of State Jules-Jeanneney (President of the last Senate in the Third Republic) had helped the Vichy regime to power in 1940. Was it right that such a man should sit now in Government councils...
...movement for a bigger administrative role, De Gaulle reshuffled his Government twice within a fortnight. Most important changes: as Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Georges Bidault, president of the National Council of Resistance. (The former Foreign Commissioner, René Massigli, was appointed "Ambassador" to London.) As Commissioner of State, Jules Jeanneney, former President of the French Senate...
...three days in secret last week French Senators peppered dapper new Premier Paul Reynaud about Allied conduct of the war. Then they let the public in and gave the Premier a big cheer. Dry old President of the Senate Jules Jeanneney said M. Reynaud had "fully satisfied the Senate." Cried Senator James (Three-Star) Hennessy: "It seems to me we can thank the Government for the masterly way in which it has answered the questions of our committees...