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...small grey building on Paris Quai d'Orsay, tucked away between the French National Assembly and the former Foreign Ministry, lives Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot, Assembly president and perennial mayor of Lyon. In his pale green salon, Herriot last week received several diplomatic callers. They settled on red-upholstered, gilt Louis XV chairs, beneath five huge crystal chandeliers, to discuss one of Europe's great hopes: Western Union. They got nowhere. Britain and France were deeply divided...
...Homeric Heroes." A few moments after Cachin had finished, Edouard Herriot was re-elected president of the Assembly. In his acceptance speech he went right on from where Cachin had left off-just as the Communists hoped he and millions of others would do. Russia and the U.S., said Herriot, "face each other in helmeted defiance, two Homeric heroes." The implication: their quarrel is not Western Europe's-Western Europe should become a third force that would strive for a reconciliation between the giants...
Henri Queuille was hoping for a miracle. What he would actually get, if some of his colleagues had their way, would be a stab in the back. A plan was afoot to bring the Communists back into the government. Chief instigator was that old darling of the U.S. press, Edouard Herriot, President of the Assembly. Following Herriot's lead were about 30 Socialist deputies, a score of M.R.P. deputies and a few Radicals. One of this group explained their ideas...
Died. General Joseph Edouard Dou-menc, 67, who organized the French army's transport system in World War I, headed the ill-fated French military mission to Moscow just before the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939, took charge of the demobilization of 5,000,000 troops when France fell; in a mountain-climbing accident; near Briangon, France...
...most important person in any picture," Edouard Manet once remarked, "is the light." Manet's painted light illumined a Manhattan gallery last week-and also lit up some of his borrowings. It was the largest collection of Manet's works (88 in all) Manhattan had ever seen...