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...combined against them. Moreover, they were almost certain to be convicted of direct connection with the murder of La Prensa's right-wing Publisher Francisco Graña, shot down in front of his office. The Grana murder had been a political cause célèbre...
...little fire under the federal cabinet. Aware that Montel's deportation might set off a political uproar in Quebec, where, as in the case of De Bernonville, the collaborator could be portrayed as a victim of anticlerical Communists in postwar France, the federal cabinet decided to follow Bre'r Rabbit...
Interviewed last week in Budapest by a TIME correspondent, Haldane took temporary refuge in his lack of exact information. (The genetics controversy, which has become a cause célèbre in Soviet Russia, has not been fully reported in Budapest.) Until he could be sure, said Haldane, that Lysenko's current theories are unscientific and that opponents had been punished for disagreeing, he would make no decision. "I don't think a political body," he said, "should decide scientific, theories. I want evidence that those who disagreed were punished." He would not decide where he stood...
...week's end, the Journal-American persuaded itself that the story was "already the most sensational cause célèbre since the days of the Dreyfus case in France." The Communist Daily Worker announced darkly that it "was timed with the negotiations for a peace settlement in Germany-and timed to prevent such a peace settlement...
...Winslow Boy (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild, H.M. Tennent Ltd. & John C. Wilson) was in real life named George Archer-Shee. Not quite 40 years ago his story-which Playwright Rattigan has followed pretty faithfully-became a cause célèbre of Edwardian England; some eight years ago Alexander Woollcott made good quick reading matter of it for snack-loving Americans...