Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 29Americana Corporation, 1965 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 351
... France , including all of French Equatorial Africa and French preemptive rights to Belgian Congo . July 21 - A speech by David Lloyd George in London serves as a warning to Germany . Nov. 4 - France cedes two strips of French Equatorial ...
... France , including all of French Equatorial Africa and French preemptive rights to Belgian Congo . July 21 - A speech by David Lloyd George in London serves as a warning to Germany . Nov. 4 - France cedes two strips of French Equatorial ...
Page 400
... France . At the beginning of 1943 , when the Germans put into effect a forced labor draft in France , thousands of young Frenchmen , particularly in central and southern France , rebelled . To escape the draft , they formed maquis bands ...
... France . At the beginning of 1943 , when the Germans put into effect a forced labor draft in France , thousands of young Frenchmen , particularly in central and southern France , rebelled . To escape the draft , they formed maquis bands ...
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... France . They entered Paris on June 14. Premier Paul Reynaud resigned on June 16 , and the next day his successor , Mar- shal Philippe Pétain , sought an armistice . The French accepted the German armistice terms at Compiègne on June 22 ...
... France . They entered Paris on June 14. Premier Paul Reynaud resigned on June 16 , and the next day his successor , Mar- shal Philippe Pétain , sought an armistice . The French accepted the German armistice terms at Compiègne on June 22 ...
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