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That's the way Radio Paris started its midnight program. The long-haired doubletalk-Dada love poetry and surrealist verse by Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali and Louis Aragon-went on for 15 minutes...
Clearest example of the new trend was the size of Georges Bidault's brand-new Mouvement Républicain Populaire in France. Its moderate progressivism attracted both Breton fisherfolk and Parisian shopkeepers. The strong religious base of the M.R.P. was not the prewar political Catholic group, which descended from the Royalist, anti-Dreyfusard reactionaries; the M.R.P. drew its ideology from the liberal social justice encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI. In economics it was left of the U.S. New Deal; but in political outlook it had much in common with Thomas Jefferson...
Last week one of the 100,000 came home. He was an obscure Breton named Corentin Le Du. The Germans had arrested him two years ago, shipped him to notorious Maidanek. After releasing him, the Russians rushed him to Moscow. Then they sent him by special plane to Paris. Frenchmen, puzzled by this exclusive treatment, soon discovered the reason: Corentin Le Du is a French Communist. He brought a message...
...great-great-great-grandfather of Katharine Robbins Lyman, who married Warren Delano, maternal grandfather of the President. *When he left the U.S. in 1935, Lindbergh first rented an out-of-the-way 500-year-old house in Sevenoaks, Kent County, England, later bought the barren, out-of-the-way Breton isle of Illiec, lived there for six months near his great & good friend, Scientist Alexis Carrel, now reported held by the F.F.I, as an alleged collaborationist. * In Hollywood, Producer Hunt Stromberg announced plans for a motion picture based on Patton's life, to be called Blood and Guts...
Finer, a dynamic little man with flashing brown eyes behind scholarly horn-rimmed glasses, in a recent book, "TVA: Lessons for International Application," set forth his international reconstruction ideas, the substance of which was incorporated almost directly into the charter of the World Development Bank at the Breton Woods Conference...