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...CLEMENT F. TRAINER San Francisco...
Wartime Climate. Yet for those refugees who do arrive, France is proving a cheerless asylum. A year ago. Jean Clement, 62, owned a 600-acre farm in Algeria. Today he is a grocer in Montpellier on the verge of bankruptcy. Complaining that his store is boycotted because he is a pied-noir (European of Algeria), Clement says angrily: "My father was killed at Verdun. I helped liberate France in 1944. I'm as good a Frenchman as anyone in Montpellier, but the animosity of the local population is terrible...
...from the treasureship of London's Labor Party organization, which he had served almost from its founding 48 years before. Stepping down partly to give someone else a turn and partly because his wife was wanting "more of him at home," the chipper former chief deputy to Clement Attlee was not without one final exhortation. "Love London." began the bobby's son who so fervently has. "Be meticulously upright, bold, sensible and socialist. Remember, we exist not to be masters of London nor even of our country. We exist to serve." Harvard University's newest chair...
...bitterly anti-Per&243;n military went into a state of shock. Having once ousted Old Soldier Per&243;n, and now deeply fearful of their ex-commander's vengeance and his irresponsibility, they were determined to forestall any Per&243;nista comeback. Through Navy Secretary Admiral Gaston Clement, some of the officers demanded the immediate resignation of Frondizi and his replacement with a military junta. But cooler heads, mostly in the army and air force, proposed a compromise: Frondizi could stay, but with his power sharply curtailed...
...Died. Clement Davies, 78, who presided over the postwar decline of Britain's Liberal Party as its leader from 1945 to 1956, saw the number of Liberal seats in Commons shrink from 12 to six as he steered a middle course between Tory and Labor that made the Liberals mostly a party of protest; of a stroke; in London. Fortnight ago, Davies was cheered when the Liberals upset a Tory M.P. in a by-election and raised their representation to seven (out of 630) in Commons-but his death again reduces the number...