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...None had ever been in the Assembly before. They ranged from hard-boiled ex-paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen ("I suppose I am different. I like women") to voluble Andre Gayrard, director of the national confederation of butchers. Some had been Resistance fighters, other collaborators or members of the fascist Croix de Feu. Most were small grocers, bakers, mechanics, shopkeepers; and each of them obeyed Little Pierre. Poujade leased a small hotel near the Louvre to house them, held a three-day conference to teach them parliamentary procedure. "See, my boys, now you listen to Little Pierre," he told them...
...Eugenio Zolli, 74, onetime (1940-45) Chief Rabbi of Rome, who became a Roman Catholic after World War II, changed his first name from Israel to Eugenio as a gesture of gratitude to Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) for his sympathetic attitude toward the Jews during the Nazi and Fascist persecutions; in Rome...
...them with a bludgeon. Balanced with these feats of muscular Christianity are a pastoral interlude where Fernandel softens the mayor's stubborn son in a sequence that touches the strings of love and charity, and a less happy episode that requires the priest, the mayor and an old Fascist enemy each to down a ritual glass of castor...
...week long Poujadist filibustering and Communist clamoring tied up the Assembly. At week's end the moderate majority moved to limit the electoral attack on the Poujadists. All too many Frenchmen had been sharply reminded of the parallel fascist-Communist clashes of 1934 that foreshadowed the decline and fall of the Third Republic...
Hamlet or Othello? The book is an exercise in anti-gullibility, an examination of the totalitarian sophistries about the free world which democrats have often uncritically swallowed. The prime myth of the totalitarians. Nazi. Fascist or Communist, is that they are modern, "the wave of the future." In reality, they are as age-old as tyranny. According to the Soviet Union, "an ineluctable law governs history" in their favor; yet it requires nothing less than "a constant reign of terror to crush the plots that might alter its unalterable course." The secondary myths are that the totalitarians are young, strong...