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VIPERS' TANGLE (288 pp.) - François Mauriac, translated by Warre B. Wells -Sheed & Ward...
THERESE (383 pp.)-François Mauriac, translated by Gerard Hopkins-Holt...
...Gaulle or Communism? The political crisis was stepped up by the nationwide municipal elections (Oct. 19). Who would win, Charles de Gaulle's R.P.F. (Rassemblement du Peuple Français) or the Communists? If the R.P.F. won, De Gaulle would sooner or later come to power and move against the Communists. They would be faced with a hard choice: submission and virtual extinction or defiance and civil war. Russia would be faced with an even harder choice: should she support the French Communist Party with arms, or lose one of her biggest fifth columns in Europe...
...conservative Figaro, France's former Ambassador to Berlin, André François-Poncet, also worried. He wrote: "What may be clear to an American élite may be less clear to the majority in Congress and, a fortiori, to the mass of electors. . . . There are plenty of people in America for whom Europe is a sort of lunatic asylum, a basket full of peevish crabs...
...Republic. The defendant was, in fact, one Jacques Bourin, on trial for collaboration. He had been a major in pro-Nazi Marcel Déat's SS à la Française. At some point during his career, he got interested in Pierre Joseph Proudhon, a 19th Century French social philosopher, sometimes known as the "Father of Anarchy." Proudhon fought against private property (which he called theft) and government, as well as his fellow Utopians...