Word: edouarde
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...Fascists, but every effort they launched was calculated to fit their battered rump of a nation into the familiar authoritarian pattern of government by suppression, censorship, alibis, purges. Echoes of "Heads will roll" Hitlerism were heard from Paris to Marseille as the Petain Government announced that onetime Premier Edouard Daladier, onetime Interior Minister Georges Mandel, onetime Navy Minister Cesar Campinchi, onetime Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos and numerous other pre-Petain Government leaders were under arrest and would be tried and punished because "they threw our country into war although they knew we were not ready to fight...
France, said Laval, will ban all strikes and lockouts; will banish "international doctrines," bar from power any politician who ever played with the Popular Front of Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier; will oppose any effort to stimulate class consciousness, do all in its power to insure "a friendly press." Laval's France is through being "a humanitarian crusader for other nations," will hereafter look out for herself alone. By way of looking after France's interest, the Pétain Government sent Great Britain, France's former ally, a demand for reparations for the damage done...
...stomach for the war, but neither had the people of France. French industry, French labor and France's political leaders dawdled through nine months of war while Germany grew stronger & stronger. Laval the Appeaser had no place in the Government, but when Paul Reynaud, foe of appeasement, succeeded Edouard Daladier and made Paul Baudouin his Foreign Minister, the door was thus obliquely opened for appeasement...
Among hundreds of European refugees who poured into the U. S. last week were: the Countess of Carnarvon, Vienna-born Dancer Tilly Losch; lean, stoop-shouldered Baron Edouard de Rothschild, retired head of the Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from...
Meanwhile, in Finland, a brilliant young architect named Alvar Aalto and his architect wife, Aino, really got somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined the functional with good sense and charm. The Aaltos were the first to make chairs with pliant one-piece backs and resilient seats. They pioneered also in welding together layers of plywood with synthetic cement, cold-pressing them for six weeks into posture-pleasing shapes...