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Americans aboard the Gripsholm (see p. 26) brought the sad news from shackled France: portly, jolly-jowled, kind-eyed Edouard Herriot is dead. He died in a prison of silence, watched by Vichy jailers. The Pétain government did not proclaim the death, did not mourn the massive liberal who was thrice Premier of France, 36 years Mayor of Lyon, always a tribune of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tribune of the People | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece Head of a Youth (see cut), and Edouard Manet's brush sketch for his great painting Olympia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Silverpoint, Swan Quills | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande. A veteran plunger on his stable's strains and silks (in 1927 he was allowed stable-loss tax reductions of $800,000), he placed no bets on canvases after the mid-19th Century's Edouard Manet, preferred art's more-than-three-(or even 50-) year-olds-In his colossal, correct Lynnewood Hall at Elkins Park he showed only his best canvases, almost a year to the day before his death left to Washington's National Art Gallery (and to Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 8, 1943 | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...great Aristide Briand sent a memorandum to all European governments proposing steps toward a European federation. From 26 nations came approval - in principle. Though Britain was officially cool, Winston Churchill, then a political outcast, wrote: "Why should Europe fear unity? As well might a man fear his own body." Edouard Herriot, Briand's bulldog, wrote a book called The United States of Europe (1930). But before the movement could get anywhere, Depression and Hitler intervened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Plan for Europe | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

LONDON--Germany has decided to take former French Premier Edouard Daladier, former Premier Leon Blum and Gen. Maurice Gamelin, French Commander in Chief before the 1940 collapse to Germany "in order to forestall a planned British-American coup de main against them," the German official news agency said in a broadcast tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nazis Jail French Leaders | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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