Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...efforts to halt rising prices, and his coalition government fell, the situation might be beyond the power of any new coalition to solve. That would almost certainly mean an early showdown between the two challenging opposites in France today-Charles de Gaulle's super-party, Rassemblement du Peuple Français, and the Communists. The end of Schuman might mean the end of parliamentary rule as France had known...
Last week Charbonneau sounded off again. He told La Société des Editeurs Canadiens du Livre Français: "It is by being Canadians and proud of it that our writers will assert themselves. . . . While modern French literature is in full decadence, while its techniques are obsolete . . . why should our younger writers continue to tie themselves exclusively...
...Fran Duggan took scoring honors with 17 points for the losers, while Frank Lionette's 11 markers paced the Crimson, which held a 24-20 halftime bulge. The freshman five, meanwhile, turned back Tabor Academy, 51-42, on the losers' court. The Jayvee summary: HARVARD (46) FG F T Mobraaten, rf 4 1 9 Rosinus 1 0 2 Altrocchi, lf 1 1 3 Goldsmith 1 0 2 Holt 1 0 2 Lionette, c 5 1 11 Guthrie 0 1 1 Covey (C), rg 2 0 4 Brynteson, lg 4 1 9 Tomsovic 0 0 0 Cohodes 0 0 0 McGiffert...
...Foreigners. It was also a year in which many well-known French novelists were brought to U.S. readers in translation. Three novels by François Mauriac acquainted U.S. readers with the painful penetration and classic structural quality of this eminent Catholic writer. The first two novels of Jean Paul Sartre's trilogy on France before World War II were studies in demoralization. André Gide reached All Hallows with the Nobel Prize and U.S. publication of the first volume of his Journals...
Died. General Jacques Leclerc (Vicomte Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque) 45, wartime field commander hero of the Fighting French, postwar Inspector-General of the French Army; in a plane crash; near Colomb-Bechar, on the Algeria-Morocco border. Brilliant, dashing, and a master tankman, Leclerc escaped from France in 1940, assumed the nom de guerre to avoid reprisals on his family...