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...editors not long ago began calling him "Our Sun." This caught on in the Soviet Union from coast to coast. Like Louis XIV of France, Le RoiSoleil ("The Sun King"), Dictator Stalin is the actual Sun around which Communist constellations revolve, might say truly if he liked "L'etat c'est moi." One day last week Sun Stalin stood refulgent atop the Red Square tomb of Lenin and more than 1,750,000 Soviet citizens marched past him carrying flags and banners. Meanwhile, Madrid had devoted the whole week to Leftist Spain's celebration of the 20th...
...Goncourts began their journal in 1851, on the day their first novel was scheduled to appear. Unfortunately it was also the day Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had chosen for the coup d'etat that made him Napoleon III, so the novel was lost in the political shuffle. In their fight for fame the brothers encountered even graver difficulties. Rabid anti-romantics, they wrote such painstakingly realistic novels that old-line critics whooped "sculptured slime . . . literature of putrescence." To younger men, such as Emile Zola, the Goncourts were prophetic pioneers. Gradually they built up a literary circle- Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert...
With the country against them, the Cabinet began to accuse Premier Hayashi of bungling what they had hoped would be a coup d'etat to entrench them more firmly. Last week he knew the game was up, resigned (TIME, June...
...have long preempted all the available cork forests, vineyards, barley fields. Suddenly alive to its danger, the Government last week sent Administrator Steeg and his party to the scene of the hunger march, and voted $2,250,000 relief money to match $450,000 which the Banque d'Etat de Maroc has already put up to buy food for the starving tribes. Distribution of free barley and mutton has already started...
...France all the railroads lose money but the Government, which actually operates only Ouest-Etat and Alsace-Lorraine, pays all the losses. In fact, Finance Minister Vincent Auriol announced last week, France's privately controlled railroads- biggest of which are the Paris-Lyons- Mediterranee, Paris-Orleans, Est, Midi and Nord-have a joint capital of only 8,000,000,000 francs (about $352,000,000) but already owe the State 25,000,000,000 (about $1,100,000,000). Only way to clean up this mess, he said, was for the Government to take over every mile of track...