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...Italian membership of 35 when Eugenic Pacelli became Pius XII in 1939). Three of the new cardinals are from Latin America (Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil), one from Canada. Other non-Italians: two Spaniards, one German, one Irishman (Archbishop D'Alton of Armagh in Northern Ireland) and two Frenchmen, giving France the highest number of cardinals (six) after Italy...
...Paris in 1926, the son of a piecework tailor. In 1942, when Robert was 16, he and his parents and one of his sisters were deported to Germany as Jews, and sent to Auschwitz. Robert alone survived, and later was transferred to Buchenwald. There, with half a dozen other Frenchmen, he began to give a little show. "I was very young," Robert recalls, "and, really, I did not understand." Nevertheless, he says, "I learned about life in there. I learned that all kinds of people are the same. Everybody just has to-come through...
...Frenchmen shuffled their feet and watched Elmer, who was nonchalantly strapping an evil-looking husking hook to his right wrist. At last the speech was over, and Elmer strode into the cornfield. He seized an ear or two, ripped the husks open with his hook and tossed them into the wagon. One of the Frenchmen spat. Then Elmer took off his shirt. "Okay, Thorson," he called to his companion, a onetime Iowa farmboy now clerking at the U.S. Embassy in Paris...
Relaxation there was-and it was spreading from limb to limb and country to country in Western Europe. The new phrase, Cold Peace (TIME, Oct. 20)-the notion that Europe can trust the Kremlin to live dangerously, but without going to war-is seized upon avidly by Frenchmen seeking new excuses to obstruct German rearmament, by Britons who fear that rearmament is the road to bankruptcy, by Germans anxious to reopen trade between the Ruhr and Russia. French Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot last week thought the time ripe to try to scuttle the European Army (see below). In Britain, Emanuel...
...crowd brought its own jumbled emotions. Many Frenchmen, spoiling for a victory on the field, winced at the sound of German cheers, mild though they were. One spectator, a concentration camp survivor, stood through the entire game, eying the visitors in silent hatred, a vengeful symbol in his old striped Buchenwald uniform. Another Frenchman, watching his jittery, overanxious team missing wild shots at the goal during the first half, wept uncontrollably...