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...crazy in a church tower, and shot half a dozen Germans. The cold-eyed homosexual sways through Paris streets, glorying in the death of the social order: "Anything goes!" he cries, and picks up a blond young deserter. The Communist, penned in a freight car with his fellow Frenchmen, smiles grimly as their train rumbles toward a German prison camp: he looks for good fishing in the troubled waters of their discontent...
...three years skeptical Frenchmen have watched Le Corbusier's ultramodern "Radiant City" taking form in the suburbs of Marseille (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948; June 12, 1950). They found plenty of fault with the 300-family apartment house. The quarters were cramped, the master bedrooms offered hardly any privacy from the living rooms, and windowless kitchens would make it hard for the pungent odors of French cooking to escape, or for French housewives to throw their garbage into the street. Last week, with the building nearing completion, vinophilic Frenchmen were talking about the most serious flaw of all. A Marseille...
...least 30 divisions under arms, 60 more trained divisions subject to call. Though its population is growing (2,000,000 more now than in 1946), though its production stands higher (30% more now than in 1940), France now has only five divisions in Europe (plus some 20,000 Frenchmen engaged in Indo-China), will muster only ten divisions by the end of 1951, under NATO's plan. These ten divisions will require only 250,000 men. In fact, that many men are already mobilized in France. Calling up a single annual class of conscripts (without political exemptions) would raise...
Paris' Le Monde angrily observed that Frenchmen were being asked to accept austerity and sacrifice while being placed outside "the strategic periphery." It would be better, said Le Monde in effect, for France to be neutral. Cried Norway's Dagbladet: "Herbert Hoover . . . neo-isolationism . . . means that Russia has got a new weapon in the cold war." The Kremlin evidently thought it had something, indeed. Moscow's Pravda printed the full text of Hoover's statement, though it had not even summarized Harry Truman's national emergency address. The Soviet press was apparently trying to prove...
...bearded Frenchmen, Paul Cézanne and Auguste Rodin, swung wide the gates of modern art. What Cézanne's deep, crusty researches into the shapes of landscape did for modem painting, Rodin's passionate punching, kneading, twisting, squeezing and stretching of the human figure did for modern sculpture. Last week a Manhattan gallery honored the pioneer sculptor with a show of small works by him and 27 moderns, "The Heritage of Auguste Rodin...