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...hornet's nest than have permitted Parliament to meet. Electric in the air of Paris was a feeling that, if France is not to drift further and further to the Left, she must jog Right in the present crisis. That is, her own Fascists of the Croix de Feu, which has no connection with either Mussolini or Hitler, must raise their own standard under Colonel François de la Rocque and prevent the Socialists and Communists of France from turning the French Government and the League of Nations against Italian Fascism. Thus for the first time was seen...
With lean Colonel de la Rocque ordering the youths of the Croix de Feu to mobilize all over France in a series of ominous mass meetings, Newspundit Henri de Kerillis declared in L'Echo de Paris: "An order for mobilization against Italy, even a partial one, an act of war, even limited to a simple act of aggression toward Italy, would create in France a violent commotion of bloody, of desperate resistance and an atmosphere of civil...
...Barbusse, 62, novelist, Pacifist, Communist; of pneumonia; in Moscow, where he attended sessions of the Seventh World Communist Party Congress. Son of a French atheist and an Englishwoman, Barbusse enlisted in the War as a private, was invalided out three times, twice cited for bravery. His war book, Le Feu, won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 despite militarists who attacked its "defeatism...
...July 15, you err in that while your English way of making soup is the autochthonous English soup, in your French method you give an intellectualized, wholly professional basic recipe. If that be the French method, how do you explain the national soup of all France, the pot-au-feu which like the English and all European national and regional soups starts with water into which things are put, not "thrown," methodically and with an uncanny sense of measure; brought to completion diversely to be sure according to national characteristics, climate and tradition...
...also veterans have been resurrecting many an unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That), Germany's Fritz von Unruh (Way of Sacrifice), Erich Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Arnold Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh...