Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist François Billoux, youngish (41) ex-dockhand, ex-Deputy, now a French Committee Minister Without Portfolio, pledged his party to cooperation with all other parties, no matter how Rightist, so long as they had not sold out to Germany. Said he, reversing the old Communist tenet that stormy weather is good weather: "We do not want civil war. We fear that civil war might completely destroy France. We could not build Communism on a ruin...
...Frenchmen could also look farther back, to a time when France's name was synonymous with freedom of thought-the days of Jean Jacques Rousseau and François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, who discovered for the people that "liberty of thought is the life of the soul...
Notably omitted in the adopted bill was any mention of the new cooperative (and monopolistic) French news agency. The French National Committee has so far had a dubious record of press freedom in its dealings with this agency, the merged France Afrique and L'Agence Française Independente. Its management lately resigned in protest against a government "general political manager" overseeing its news reports...
...South Africa's Parliament, ardent Nationalist Dr. Daniel François Malan moved that the Union reorganize as a republic outside the British Commonwealth. Last month a weekly partly owned by the Union's Finance Minister Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr had proposed a republic within the British Commonwealth (TIME, Jan. 17). In the Union Parliament, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts replied directly to Dr. Malan, indirectly to Minister Hofmeyr. Said Smuts: "I expect nothing from your republic. I have been hearing about this republic for the last 25 years and I don't take it seriously any more...
Alain Dorian, 29-year-old, polio-myelitic son of assassinated French Admiral Jean François Darlan, chatted with Mary Pickford (chairman of the women's division of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) at Georgia's Warm Springs Foundation Hospital. A onetime French naval officer, Alain looked remarkably like his seadog father-whose 1942 dash from France to Algiers (where his son was first stricken) resulted in his collaboration with U.S. forces. President Roosevelt reportedly provided Alain's plane trip from North Africa to the Warm Springs Foundation Hospital several months after his father...