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...Edouard Daladier, barrel-chested, bull-necked Munich era Premier of France, wrote from internment in Germany that he was well...
Also running, but late in starting, were: 1) The Mouvement Républicain Populaire, a new left-of-center party which included Christian Democrats, like Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, and the moderate bourgeoisie; 2) the Radical Socialists, the old center party of Edouard Herriot (still a prisoner in Germany), now leaning for strength on the conservative peasantry. Barred from voting were many who once formed France's extreme right. A Government decree had withdrawn the franchise from collaborators...
...Died. Edouard Bourdet, 58, sharp-nosed French playwright, onetime director of the haughty Comedie Française, De Gaulle's drama and music expert in the Ministry of Education since last November; of a stroke; in Paris. U.S. theatergoers knew him best for La Prisonniere, a play about Lesbianism which opened in Manhattan as The Captive, closed at the suggestion of the police...
...unquestionably the work of an expert: the tricky job of slitting the canvas was notably clean; two more valuable paintings (Cezanne's Bread and Eggs and Edouard Manet's Nymph Surprised) hung beside the stolen Monet-but to an initiate, these would be recognized as unsaleable. Not so Berge (Embankment). This exquisite, frosty scene of the Seine River bank near the Norman village of Vetheuil, where Monet often painted, has been in Buenos Aires since 1912, is comparatively little known elsewhere. Because no complete, official catalogue of Monet's work exists, the painting might well be disposed...
...Vichyites disappeared, the names of democratic French leaders came back into the news. Former Chamber of Deputies President Edouard Herriot and Premier Leon Blum, who had been reported dead, were now reported to be in Germany. Reported "living quietly" was: General Maxime Weygand (in the Tyrol). Reported assassinated by Darnand's militia in Paris: ex-Cabinet Minister Georges Mandel...