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...been a smuggler all his life-and intended to keep on being one. Said A. Wesley Stuart, a lean, little-known backbencher for six years: "There is a very unfair difference between the prices paid in the U.S. and. . . in Canada. . . I live on the bank of the St. Croix River and you can throw a stone across to-the other side. On [the U.S.] side an electric refrigerator sells for $225. If you walk across the little bridge to the other side, it sells, for $460. . . I never came through [the border] in my lifetime that...
...Medal of Honor, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with palm, Order of Danilo of Montenegro...
...General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, was already organizing what later became the French First Army. Young Bernard enlisted in the Free French army in 1944, landed with the Allies in the south of France, went on with the French army into Germany, won a Medaille Militaire and a Croix de Guerre with palm. Last week, in Indo-China, Lieut. Bernard de Lattre, 23, won his second Croix de Guerre...
Yvonne returned to Paris in November 1945 and tried to reassemble her life. Comte Bernard had died in a German prison camp at Flossenburg. The La Rochefoucauld château in Normandy had been bombed and burned. France had awarded Yvonne the Croix de Guerre with three palms and star for her war work. From England came the King's Medal for her work with British Intelligence. But the countess was hard up. Although she held a medical degree from the University of Paris, she could not practice because of her concentration-camp injuries...
Konstantin Rokossovsky, who only the week before had been a marshal of the Red army and a Soviet citizen, settled down in Warsaw to his new job as Marshal of Poland and Minister of National Defense. In Paris, the journal La Croix mused: "What would our Communist papers say if France were to appoint an American or ah Englishman as Minister of National Defense...