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...institutional failure finally exploded earlier this month when police officers took the stand to explain what went wrong. Le Monde said Angers' police and judges were using "evasive justifications" about why they missed more than a year of warnings about child prostitution. And the town's local newspaper Le Courrier de l'Ouest said the police "with greater resources without doubt would have stopped the trafficking sooner." Meanwhile, the children remain deeply traumatized. After an intensive period of psychotherapy, 40 have been placed with foster families in western France, while five are living with their relatives. Social workers and psychiatrists...
...struck," said Geneva's Le Courrier, "by the extraordinary ensemble of these four musicians who have come from Chicago with something other than corned beef in their suitcases." Wrote Amsterdam's Het Vrije Volk: "The highest praise can scarcely suffice . . . They have made us aware that along with the harshly materialistic, there is another America." In Braunschweig, West Germany, the Goslarsche Zeitung critic ran out of superlatives: "How can one write criticism when the whole evening was without a flaw?" Acclaim awaited the quartet in small towns as well as big: In Sweden's Malmo...
...fair wind was already blowing from "other directions." At Odessa on the Black Sea, ships took on the first carloads of 500,000 tons of grain the Russians had promised to France. Communist Leader Maurice Thorez was busy telling his countrymen about Russia's beneficence. A Courrier de Paris cartoon showed Blum as a gloomy war bride bound for the U.S., surrounded by sympathetic French girls saying: "Poor thing, her G.I. doesn't want her any more." Russia was not above trying to win Marianne on the rebound...
...took a really veteran Western Union messenger boy, Russel T. Mann, who has been at his job since early 1939, to remember that people in prewar days had the tipping habit. "Hell, we never get any now," said a young and disgusted bicycle courrier...
...Bermuda for the now customary inspection of mail and passengers by the British, two customs officers took Captain Brousse to his cabin. They asked for his papers and were shown his diplomatic passport. They then asked if he was carrying any letters. He showed them two sealed paquets de courrier from Foreign Minister Paul Baudouin to Ambassador Henry-Haye. To the Captain's astonishment the British demanded them...