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Died. General Paul Rollet, 72, "fightingest man in all France," president of the veterans' organization called the Smashed Faces, grand old man of the Foreign Legion and commandant of the famed First Regiment which fought on the Western Front in World War I; in Paris...
...could stand. Men were screaming hour after hour. Doctors scrambled among the wreckage over boulders and among hastily rigged stretchers with hypodermics of morphine. At the official count 55 men were reported dead, 223 seriously injured. Quick to reach the scene was the Legion's Inspector, General Paul Rollet...
...answer came a story, of the final dialog, last week, between Mr. Doty (known in the Legion as Gilbert Clare) and his commander, Colonel Rollet, at Sidi-bel-Abbes. M. le Colonel, choleric, began by reminding Mr. Doty that he ought to have been shot for desertion, then went on to praise him for certain acts of gallantry. Finally Colonel Rollet cried: "Clare, you are returning to America; you know there has been a film made there, Beau Geste, reviling the Foreign Legion...
...film is a monstrous lie!" shouted Colonel Rollet. "You know, Soldier Clare, there is justice in the Legion." "Oui, mon Colonel." "I wish I had the man here who made that film!* "But you, Soldier Clare, know that it is a lie. When you return to America, give us a square deal. Tell the truth, that's all I want." "Oui, mon Colonel." "Touchy." At Marseille, Deserter Doty said: "Colonel Rollet is a touchy old egg, but he's been on the level. . . . The Legion is no young ladies' seminary, though I've never been...
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