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...liberated Lyons CBS's Eric Sevareid found and interviewed an anachronistic Frenchman whom the F.F.I. would give a good deal to find. Charles Maurras, 76, editor of the Royalist Action Fran false, diehard antirepublican and brilliant man of letters, was hiding from F.F.I, vengeance. Wrote Sevareid...
...news that Paris was free stirred BBC's Director General to an act of Gallic impulsiveness: he ordered a tricolor flown from the roof. It floated proudly until a sharp-eyed Frenchman phoned to ask the reason. "Paris is free!" a delirious voice replied. "Hadn't you heard?" "Yes," said the Frenchman, "but why are you flying the Dutch flag...
...Said a Frenchman: "Vichy? It is a basket of crabs." Petty officials spent their time compiling dossiers on each other, hoping that they could save themselves by betraying their colleagues to the liberating Allies. One thick accusation by X against Y reached London on the same day as a bulgy dossier by Y against...
Chief of Government Pierre Laval was, by reports, in Paris. With him he carried the bulky manuscript of his Apologia Pro Vita Sua. On it he reportedly had worked for a year, scribbling hundreds of pages to prove that he was first & last a Frenchman with the interests of France at heart, after that a pro-Allied, anti-Nazi Frenchman who did the best he could...
...When . . . Governor Winthrop in 1629 came to Massachusetts to 'find a place for our sitting down,' he wrote to his English sponsor saying, 'Send me, pray, a Frenchman that he may lay out our city for me.' Jefferson, two centuries later, followed his example by inviting Major l'Enfant to design the city of Washington. . . . "These and many other historic instances confirm the European source of our own art of city planning. Our most striking inventions, our most useful techniques, have often had their beginnings across the seas. . . . Those magnificent parkways, for example, which reach...