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Show NAMES I . . . in the news The duke of Windsor, now governor gover-nor of the Bahama islands, off Florida, Flori-da, cabled his congratulations to brother George, for his family's escape es-cape from German bombs. Premier Mackenzie King of Canada did the same thing. Authorized German forces declared de-clared that Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, chief of the Nazi air force, flew over London at the controls of Junkers plane, in one of the nightly raids on that city. The French Vichy government put on trial ex-Generalissimo Gamelin, ex-Premiers Daladier and Reynaud, and ex-Minister Georges Mandel, for bungling or treachery, or any old charge. Really, it was a conservative conserva-tive purge of liberals one that had been coming on, in France, since the celebrated Drevfus case of the 1890s. |