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Less deft was a British bid for France's favor. Because President Felix Gouin had hinted that the Rhineland need not necessarily be severed from Germany, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin tried to reopen talks on a Franco-British alliance. But Socialist Gouin's Cabinet colleagues strenuously objected. As torchbearers for Charles de Gaulle (who, in retirement at Marly-le-Roi, spoke of the time "quand je reviens-when I return"), the Popular Republicans (M.R.P.) held out stubbornly for the "political internationalization" of Western Germany. The Communists suspected that French, British and German Socialists were plotting another Socialist version...
...taken and given many a hard knock. After crowding eight years of public school into three, he cleaned a poolroom to work his way through City College. A Scottish Fabian, Thomas Davidson, woke Cohen to an interest in philosophy; as a scholarship student at Harvard, where he roomed with Felix Frankfurter, he became a protěgé of William James. Then came what Cohen refers to as "dark and weary years ... in the valley of humiliation." As a poorly paid mathematics teacher at City College, he barely made ends meet, vainly sought transfer to the philosophy department...
Conductor Jones was content to follow the precedent of Felix Mendelssohn, who in 1829 started a Bach revival in Germany. The Mass was sung with even more voices than the Bethlehem choir used last week. Said Ifor Jones: "Mendelssohn was an oratorio writer [with] large choruses and super-duper performances...
Born. To Deanna Durbin, 23, thrush from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who flew to Hollywood stardom on wings of song; and Felix Jackson, 43, producer who helped guide her flight: their first child, a daughter. Name: Jessica Louise. Weight...
Warned President Felix Gouin, in his first report to the National Assembly...