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Last week the Finaly children, now lively, well-mannered schoolboys, had become objects of debate in the French Assembly, and their pictures were on Page One of most French newspapers. Because of them, for one reason or another, 17 Frenchmen were in jail or out on bail, including six Roman Catholic priests and two nuns. And Frenchmen not involved in the case were arguing about I'affaire. Finaly with an intensity usually reserved for major cabinet crises...
...Most Frenchmen have a natural distrust of living anywhere except in France, but the poster swayed the schoolteacher and his wife. It showed a colonial couple, elegant in tropic white, taking their ease in a banana grove, while eager natives bustled at tasks around them. "Young people," assured the poster legend, "a fortune awaits you in the Colonies!" Ma and her husband applied for teaching posts in Indo-China and, one day in 1899, sailed to take them...
...thin reed, bent last week under a gale of resentment blowing out of German-speaking, French-minded Alsace. To cool Alsatians' anger at the verdict in the Oradour massacre trial (TIME, Feb. 23), Premier René Mayer hustled through the Assembly a law decreeing amnesty for all Frenchmen forcibly drafted by the Germans during World War II. It had the immediate effect of granting pardons to 13 Alsatians who, pressed into the Nazis' SS, had participated in the wartime rape of Oradour-sur-Glane...
...been seen in France since; many a non-Communist believes that he is dead. Last week L'Huma published a picture of a sickly Maurice Thorez with wife (see cut), claiming that it had been taken in Russia on Feb. 1 of this year. To skeptical Frenchmen, neither the photography nor the claim proved anything-except that Moscow wants the French faithful to believe that "Dear Maurice" is alive...
...month long as witnesses told of the grisly mass murder. Paris newspapers had built the story up into one of the year's great controversies; it proved particularly timely, as a reminder of past German cruelties, for politicians who oppose a European army in which Germans and Frenchmen will wear the same uniform. The verdict: death for SS Sergeant Georges-René Boos (a Frenchman) and Karl Lenz (a German), sentences from five to twelve years for 18 others, including the Alsatians...