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...flats a metropolis spawned, a city not of one nation but of the world, where British taipans played polo in the long afternoons, where tough, good-humored American businessmen talked baseball, poker and politics, where short French soldiers laughed with not quite proper young ladies at the Cercle Sportif Français, where Russian princes turned barbers and German barbers turned princes. It became a city of American complexion-of skyscrapers, streetcars, movie houses, as foreign to China as a city of bamboo huts and Buddhist temples would be on the marshes of the Chesapeake...
Daybreak (French) is built on a dramatic foundation often tried and usually untrue: the device of discovering a character in a narrow corner, where he sits obligingly remembering his story for the camera. The story that passes before the blank eyes of François (Jean Gabin) in his garret room, as the police stand waiting for him on the street beneath, is strange and more worth remembering than most...
Other Ministries: Finance, Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...
...Veteran Fran Leo, a fast-improving Greeley Summers, speed-merchant Ray Guild, and Caleb Loring are the ranking wingbacks. Captain Joe Gardella, Bill Brown, and Mort Waldstein are a trio of good buckers, making this position as well fortified as any with the exception of the bumper end crop...
...just when he did? II Duce gave no indication in his speech of the reason for his timing. The only hint of a reason came from France's Premier Paul Reynaud: "What was the pretext of his declaration of war? When, this afternoon, at 4:30, our Ambassador François-Poncet asked Count Ciano this question, Mussolini replied that he was 30 doing nothing but fulfilling the pledges that he had given Hitler."Europe's innocent bystanders, small of stature and short of hope, anxiously wondered whether II Duce would as faithfully fulfill the pledges...