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...ever. On his bullet-ridden corpse had been found a packet of penciled paper scraps and a tiny notebook. Overlooked by the assassins, the scraps were saved by a loyal official, handed over to Mandel's devoted mistress, blond, Junoesque Madame Beatrice Bretty of the Comédie Française. Now, with Madame Bretty's permission, they were published in Mandel's old paper, the Rightist L'Ordre...
Proudly France accepted this legacy of patriotism. Then it honored the donor in a manner wholly French. At the Comédie Française Madame Bretty played her first stage role (Lisette in Le Légataire Universel) since liberation. From the crowded audience came wave after wave of deep applause, for her and for Georges Mandel...
...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...
overseas airline, filed its broad claims with this plan in mind. Pan Am traffic experts guesstimated that they would fly passengers from Los Angeles to Sydney in 32 hours (fare: $295); from San Fran cisco to Shanghai in 36 hours (fare: $303 ); from Seattle to Juneau in less than four hours (fare...
...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...