Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lamp post!"-the French Revolution's cry for summary justice-was heard again in modern form in France last week. Mild-mannered François de Menthon, French Minister of Justice, reported to the Consultative Assembly on the purge. Thus far, 60,000 prosecutions, 7,053 sentences (including 574 death sentences) have been carried out. Minister De Menthon was interrupted by fierce heckling. Cried resistance delegates: too many reprieves-"danger to the nation in a policy of weakness and evasion on matters of repression...
...awful fact was that the Ministry of Health, under Communist François Billoux, was pussyfooting a plan (some said a ten-year plan) to discourage the consumption of alcohol by a long-term rationing of wine. The Ministry wanted to encourage the consumption of fresh fruit juices, by promoting the soft-drink industry and setting up soft-drink bars beside village and city bistros. The immediate purpose was to conserve alcohol for military needs. The long-range purpose was to conserve the national health...
Then the prosecutor briefly "summed up the case against Maurras. In L'Action Française he had denounced patriots by name, caused some to be arrested and shot. The judge and four lay consultants deliberated for 90 minutes. Their verdict: Maurras was guilty of treason. His sentence: life imprisonment at hard labor...
Before a Lyons court stood the most famous collaborationist yet brought to trial in France-bearded, brilliant Charles Maurras, political anachronism, polemicist, poet, member of the French Academy, ex-editor of L'Action Française, and a royalist more royalist than France's Pretender, Henri VI (the exiled Henri of Bourbon-Orleans, Count of Paris). The little old man was 76 and stone deaf. All charges and questions had to be given him in writing...
Died. Edouard Bourdet, 58, sharp-nosed French playwright, onetime director of the haughty Comedie Française, De Gaulle's drama and music expert in the Ministry of Education since last November; of a stroke; in Paris. U.S. theatergoers knew him best for La Prisonniere, a play about Lesbianism which opened in Manhattan as The Captive, closed at the suggestion of the police...