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...others: the late Drs. Carl Abraham and Max Eitingon of Berlin, Sandor Ferenczi of Budapest, Otto Rank of Vienna, Ernest Jones of London (still living). *Fran Profesor, 80, is still living in London...
...division in the country was reflected in the government. In De Gaulle's Cabinet were two Communists, grey, wiry Air Commissioner Charles Tillon, handsome Health Commissioner François Billoux. But the Cabinet also contained two right-wing extremists, the young, athletic Commissioner for Prisoners and Deportees, Henri Frenay and Transport Commissioner René Mayer, a onetime Rothschild confidant...
They included some of France's most famous writers : Poet Louis Aragon ("François la Colère") ; François Mauriac ("Forez") ; Livération Editor Claude Morgan ("Mortagne"); Poet Jean Cassou ("Jean Noir"), and (anonymously) Roger Giron, Chief of Cabinet in Premier Reynaud's last Government. Reprinted for Les Editions from smuggled foreign copies were John Steinbeck's Nuits Noires (The Moon Is Down) and exiled Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre...
...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...