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France's greatest holidays-the ninth anniversary of V-E day and the feast day of Joan of Arc. There was little rejoicing on the gaily beflagged, sunshiny boulevards, but neither was there much demonstration. On the V-E holiday, police lined the Champs Elysées to protect the government ministers who came to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arch of Triumph. President René Coty-whose badge of office usually excites big applause -got only a scattering of handclaps. Premier Laniel's car rolled past and some shouted and hissed. "Send...
...Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, sentenced Joan of Arc, who in wartime had given her best to her nation, to be burnt as a witch; 500 years later we find a new group of witch hunters turning upon J. Robert Oppenheimer, who had given his best to his nation in wartime...
...nothing official about me?" said he. Then the long arms stretched out in the old gesture. No, he would observe "the victory which it was my honor to bring to France" in his own way - not on May 8, but on May 9, the Feast Day of Joan of Arc. "I shall go to the Arch of Triumph ... I will arrive alone - without followers . . . I will stand there - alone. I will salute the Unknown Soldier - alone...
Outside, in the streets of Paris, the affair did not end so smoothly. At week's end, bands of right-wing students, veterans, followers of General de Gaulle and monarchists began parading and shouting, "Vive Juin!" Laniel and Pleven went to a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe for the fallen soldiers of Dienbienphu...
...many as possible of the world-ruling and Khazar-hated race of 'Aryans.' " Everyone from Justice Brandeis to Anna M. Rosenberg was brought under fire. "Who is it," asked Beaty at one point, "that enjoys the highest military position held by woman since Joan of Arc? . . . For an introductory answer, see the article on Mrs. Anna Rosenberg in the Reader's Digest of February 1951. For an interesting portrait of another modern woman . . . see the similar article on Ana Rabinsohn Pauker in the same magazine...