Word: ecoutez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some months ago in Paris gendarmes made the rounds of the newsstands, snatched up all visible copies of a scandal sheet called Ecoutez-Moi ("Listen To Me"), bore them off to headquarters, fed them to the furnace. The gendarmes were obeying orders from the Foreign Office, which had been stirred to action by the British Embassy, which had been outraged by an article entitled "The Prince of Wales is Bedworthy...
...Ecoutez-Moi proceeded to document a case which led to this conclusion: H. R. H. is in love with a commoner; his mother has given him until the end of 1935 to choose an acceptable wife; after that he must accept whomever his mother designates...
...less revealing than the story in Ecoutez-Moi, which detailed the crises in H. R. H.'s sex life, Liberty was certainly more polite. Typical excerpt...