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Last spring ten nations (Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, France, West Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Yugoslavia) organized CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) and agreed to chip in for a nuclear research center. Continental Europe has plenty of big scientific brains, but no big apparatus...
...Center (founded in 1938 but dormant through war and occupation) now has about 3,000 members. They represent a small and dissident fraction of the hidebound Conseil National du Patronat Français (France's N.A.M.), which has 880,140 members and remains suspicious of the Young Employers' radical views. But the Young Employers are tireless evangelists. Originally their group was limited to employers under 40; now there is no age qualification, but members are expected to be "young in spirit...
...slap at Premier Blum by famed old Senator Joseph Caillaux, many times Finance Minister. "It is, as you say, the duty of every Government to hear both the employers' and the workers' sides," roared M. Caillaux at M. Blum, "but you Monsieur le Président du Conseil, have shown preference for the predominance of a class -the proletariat-which has the right to our solicitude but which is not the only class in the country...
...dealer, bald Edouard Jonas, Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France, Expert Conseil du Gouverne-ment, has had a brilliant career. An expert in the graceful decadence of the 18th Century, he owns a gallery on the smartest corner in Paris, Place Vendome & Rue Castiglione. He has been appointed director of the Government's new Cognacq-Jay Museum of 18th Century paintings and antiques.* He married the former wife of Cigar Store Tycoon David Schulte, and until six months ago he operated a large and very elaborate shop in New York...
...Maitre: title of all French avocats. French women lawyers, however, are not maitresses, illustrated by the news last week that Maitre Maria Verone and Maitre Marie Therese Moreau were unsuccessful candidates for the Conseil de I'Ordre, the inner law circle which voted the title batonnier to M. Poincare...