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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Happy Days (by Claude-André Puget, produced by Raphael & Robert Hakim). This fragile study of French adolescence was popular in Paris before the city grew grey under Adolf Hitler. Adapter Zoë Akins has warily shifted the story to an island on the St. Lawrence River, but it seems to take place on a river, and in a time, of memory...
...André Malraux (Man's Fate), who served with a French tank division, was wounded on June 16, 1940, later captured. He managed to escape from a Nazi prison camp, found himself in occupied France, for some time was unable to get out. Now Novelist Malraux is living at Hyeres on the Riviera, writing "the most important novel of my career...
Other Men of Good Will in that amorphous, hopeful group were the Frenchmen Daladier, Georges Bonnet, Yvon Delbos (whom Romains says he made Foreign Minister), Ambassador André Francois-Poncet; Belgian Cabinet Minister Henri de Man; presumably many whom Good Willman Romains does not name. They believed that "nothing good could ever come of war," devoted themselves to plotting peace coups which somehow never came off. The greatest of these plots was hatched by Henri...
...writer who hides his identity under the pseudonym André Simone may be Pertinax (André Geraud), André Gide, André Malraux, Georges Mandel, Geneviève Tabouis. All deny that they wrote J'Accuse! The book is a lurid charge that most of France's political and military leaders were traitors-those who were not were dupes. A good deal of the charge is based on whispers from Senators, confidences from Cabinet Ministers, tips from newspapermen...
Charges of leftish sabotage are made by André Maurois (Tragedy in France), famed author of Ariel and Byron. Like Hambro, Maurois insists that the "actual traitors . . . were not at all numerous. . . ." He gives four reasons for the debacle: 1) stupid industrial mobilization which permitted irreplaceable skilled workers to be drafted, so that Renault (tanks and trucks) was reduced from 30,000 workers to some 7,000; 2) engineers and financiers thought World War II was World War I, built factories which could not turn out essential weapons until 1941 or '42; 3) strategy was planned...