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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three facts stood out: 1) Charles de Gaulle's R.P.F. won a smashing victory, now held more votes than any other party (6,000,000); 2) Georges Bidault's centrist M.R.P. was all but dead, with more than two-thirds of its voters having gone over to De Gaulle; 3) the Communists, though knocked off their perch as France's largest party, had essentially held their...
...feed Germany with wheat and gasoline to kill Frenchmen. And why did Maurice Thorez desert in 1940?" Thorez flushed, then leaped at Karaimsky, and punched him. Some 1,700 other comrades tried to rush in on the single, unarmed blasphemer. He was dragged out of the meeting hall more dead than alive. A LIFE photographer who recorded the scene (see cut) was cornered by the angry crowd and forced to surrender his films temporarily; he managed to hide one in his trouser pocket...
...stretched thongs in an open courtyard in Lahore, half naked, her head "wrung steeply back, her legs rigid in a convulsion as of birth, a woman lay dead...
After a few weeks of doubtful effectiveness, the Council committee took an intelligent step last night with its decision to poll the undergraduate body on the date-or-no-date policy. As far as this year is concerned, the issue is just about dead, but planning for next year's football season now instead of in October, 1948, will be an improvement in itself. The Irard-pressed undergraduate had better resign himself to his 1947 fate--but start thinking long and seriously about what to wait for until next year...
...entered the Grenadier Guards. Great Morning is dedicated to one of Sir Osbert's friends and contemporaries in the Guards, then "a charming and elegant young man," now Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis (and Canada's Governor General). Most of his other Guardsman friends were dead before 1916. Happily stationed in London, resplendently uniformed and detailed to duty at the romantic Tower or at Buckingham Palace, young Sitwell in his free evenings discovered the world of fashion. Heady excitements were to be found there: the great hostesses such as Mrs. Asquith, Mrs. Keppel, Lady Cunard...