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...Gaulle and Tukhachevsky first met during World War I. Both were young officers. Both were war prisoners in Germany. Both were interned at Ingolstadt, the Alcatraz of German prison camps. Both the short, ebullient Russian and the tall, solemn Frenchman were advocates of the new ideas of military mechanization. In their conversations each influenced the other...
...would take him three years, and when a friend pointed out that 40 French Academicians had labored 40 years to write a French dictionary, Johnson boomed: "Sir, forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three is to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." The Dictionary took nine years, and was such a success that the Government rewarded him with a pension of £300 a year...
...Frenchman's Creek (Paramount) is a minor masterpiece of mush. A color-drenched $4,000,000 cinemadaptation of Daphne du Maurier's best-seller laid in 17th-Century England (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), it offers male cinemaddicts little for their money except innumerable coyly brazen veilings and half-unveilings of Joan Fontaine's Restoration bosom, and a startling scene in which Miss Fontaine, alone in a dress-parade nightgown, frisks and flops about on her marshmallowy bed like a titillated tarpon. But to judge by the gasps, oofs, titters and low moans of the audience which stuffed...
...Cornwall, the miracle happens. Her new butler William (Cecil Kellaway) has a friend and master hiding in the vicinity who has been using her bed and building fancies about her portrait. This vagabond lover (Arturo de Cordova) is a Frenchman with a taste for Ronsard, tabac and sketching seabirds. He is also wonderfully handsome and softspoken, and he thrills her with his talk of being free, free, a law unto himself. He manages this by piracy, robbing the rich and giving generously to the poor. Stimulated by this philosophic man of action, Lady St. Columb begins to act like...
Meanwhile France waited for its vote; elections were tentatively scheduled for three months after V-day. To many a Frenchman the result seemed a foregone conclusion. Said one anti-communist businessman: "France will go socialist...