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Largely because the French people have never been able to take seriously a politician whose middle name they believe to be Casimir, the disorganized body of Right-minded Frenchmen with fascist leanings have found Colonel François "Casimir" de la Rocque a weak reed to lean on. In recent months a much more potent fascist has appeared in the person of hulking, bull-voiced Jacques Doriot. A former mechanic and metalworker, son of a blacksmith, his political career has been irregular as his private life is blameless...
LIFE OF JESUS - François Mauriac- Longmans, Green ($2.50). Simple, sincere retelling of the Gospel narrative, focused on Christ's human aspects. Catholic François Mauriac anticipates that his "rash book" will offend many, but is pleased that it has already won over 100,000 readers in France...
...only foreign city which is popular with the Turkish people. You will recall that in the 16th-Century Wars against Charles V of Spain, the people of Nice witnessed the imposing spectacle of 150 Turkish ships of war sailing to the aid of 40 galleys of the French King Fran...
Already jailed 18 months for embezzling funds of Paris' Socoa Electric Co. of which he was board president, onetime (June 9-14, 1924) Premier Frederic François-Marsal of France was sentenced to two years more for fraudulent distribution of dividends...
...January 1934, Navy flyers made the longest non-stop formation flight in aviation history. Patrol Squadron VP-10, consisting of six big Wright Cyclone-powered Consolidated Navy patrol flying boats and 30 officers and men, flew 2,399 mi. over the Pacific Ocean from San Fran cisco to Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...