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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Nous la Liberte? | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: That's That | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 31, 1944 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...high-ceilinged room where the French Consultative Assembly meets in Algiers, François de Menthon, Commissioner of Justice, began a speech. He spoke of 288 Vichyites who had been accused of treason, collaboration and other crimes against France and Frenchmen, but had not yet been tried and punished. No sound came from the 80-odd Assemblymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Who Shall Judge? | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Even French doctors have an underground paper. The latest edition of Le Medicin Français (The-French Doctor), a small (four-page) mimeographed sheet, recently arrived in the U.S. It is published "Somewhere in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Underground Doctors | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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