Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberated Lyons CBS's Eric Sevareid found and interviewed an anachronistic Frenchman whom the F.F.I. would give a good deal to find. Charles Maurras, 76, editor of the Royalist Action Fran false, diehard antirepublican and brilliant man of letters, was hiding from F.F.I, vengeance. Wrote Sevareid...
...France's Immortals, the black-robed Académie Française, voted to ostracize two famed colleagues: Abel Bonnard, writer who had served as Vichy Minister of Education; Abel Hermant, octogenarian novelist who wrote for Paris's pro-Nazi Les Nouveaux Temps...
...Among industrialists arrested or marked for arrest: René Duchemin (French Employers Federation), JosephTrotard (Francolor, an I. G. Farben stooge). François Lehideux (auto magnate, ex-Vichy Production Minister), Hypolite Worms (banker). Others: René Fonck (World War I ace), Georges Grappe (Rodin Museum Curator), Albert Blaser (Director of Maxim's), Jean-Hérold Paquis (radio commentator), Bernard Faÿ (historian). Most of the Directors of the Bank of France were suspended...
This 300-year-old sentence from Areo-pagitica-"A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England," was very much alive last fortnight in London. In London's Institut Français, members of the International P.E.N. Club met to celebrate Areopagitica's tercentenary with a conference on: 'The Place of Spiritual and Economic Values in the Future of Mankind." Outside, glass tinkled as cleaners swept up the Institutes buzz-bombed windows. Within the drafty building P.E.N.'s calm General Secretary Hermon Quid remarked: "A klaxon will sound...
...scholars and labor leaders; a second was Front National, organized by Communists; and the third was called Organisation Civile et Militaire, a non-political organization, and the strongest in the Cherbourg area. Now by decree of the Algiers Government, combat elements of these groups are merged into the Forces Françaises de VIntérieure, a unit of the French Army under command of General Joseph Pierre Koenig (see WORLD BATTLE-FRONTS). According to resistance chiefs in Cherbourg, the movement is genuinely nonpolitical, and it seems likely that the leaders will seek military rather than political posts...