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...Revered but flawed statesmen, often with a military background, loom over the 20th-century history of Europe and its neighbourhood: Winston Churchill in the UK, Charles de Gaulle in France, Józef Piłsudski...
...General Charles de Gaulle, who had raised the banner of the Free French in London, was denounced by the Vichy regime for treason and sentenced to death in absentia....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Judge Charles Breyer of the US District Court in the Northern District of California, who also presided over the Hussain case, found that Lynch presented a “serious and substantial” flight risk because of...
...The King’s coronation would combine solemn religious aspects with pageantry, an official in the royal household said, adding: “The government, the royal household, the earl marshal [the Duke of Norfolk,...
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...Yet Russian officials were taking a generally “obstructionist stance” and defence minister Marshal Igor Sergeyev was warning the alliance that further enlargement would be “a major political error”....
...Suddenly, researchers could marshal more data and serious mathematics to conduct sophisticated research into what actually worked (or at least worked in theory, based on the historical evidence)....
...One crowd-control marshal I spoke to, whose name I didn’t get because halfway through our conversation he was called to intervene in a small fight that had broken out between another marshal and an irate...
...The other storyline takes place in 2050 and revolves around a fictional set of twins, Charles and Greg Ramsey, descendants of the Becks....
...So I think as more and more people were coming down, they had to put in more crowd control staff, more marshals, more barricades....
...In 1926, the statue was moved to a more distant location and in 1941 melted down by Marshal Pétain’s Vichy government....
...“The impact on . . . defence infrastructure is already more profound and global than many people realise,” says Charles Woodburn, CEO of BAE Systems....
...Airports have told the government they do not have enough staff to marshal passengers through terminals, and have instead suggested Border Force staff be used....
...I have always liked the character in Tolstoy’s War and Peace – Marshal Kutuzov. He is the very opposite of Napoleon....
...At the moment he is hovering between Marshal Philippe Pétain and General Charles de Gaulle. Let us hope he knows enough history to choose. edward.luce@ft.com...
...Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein, Pan Macmillan, RRP£20/Riverhead Books, RRP$28 To the delight of tinkerers and dilettantes everywhere, Epstein marshals research to...
...The prime minister will use his freedom to marshal new constituencies....
...It’s his wife (Lyndsey Marshal) who holds their life together, fully aware that it’s founded on a fiction — all arranged and paid for by her ex-lover, Charles Woods....
...France only belatedly fully acknowledged its role in the Holocaust under the authoritarian wartime regime of Marshal Philippe Petain....
...Later that year Mao harshly criticises Chen, but he remains in his post. 1971: After Marshal Lin Biao (pictured above with Mao Zedong) dies in an aeroplane crash he is accused of plotting a coup....
...Musical and choreographed sequences flow in and out, and the figures of Dickens (Nicholas Bishop) and his editor marshal events along and sometimes even stand in for a younger Scrooge while the excellent...
...While the official rate has been held at 166 to the dollar since April 2016, the parallel rate is about 430, according to Charles Robertson, chief economist at Renaissance Capital....
...The Kochs, together with the other wealthy Republican donors whose spending they marshal, plan to put $300m-$400m into influencing next year’s US midterm elections, funding individual candidates and a raft...
...The music is febrile with imaginative ideas and marshals its material so that it does not feel a minute too long....
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