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Because he made films for a German-controlled company, Director Clouzot was forbidden to work for two years after the liberation; then he made Quai des Orfevres (Jenny Lamour) which is just as unflattering to the French as The Raven, and just as popular-with Frenchmen. Author Chavance says stoutly of his Raicn: "It is no more anti-French than Chicago gangster pictures are anti-American...
Deadline in March. Robert Schuman's way of summing up the situation, at the level of the deliberate commonplace, made his government's crisis sound almost trivial. But Frenchmen knew what he meant. And they knew that if Schuman failed in his efforts to halt rising prices, and his coalition government fell, the situation might be beyond the power of any new coalition to solve. That would almost certainly mean an early showdown between the two challenging opposites in France today-Charles de Gaulle's super-party, Rassemblement du Peuple Français, and the Communists...
Schuman thereupon had to reimpose many controls. Now, could he reverse the trend? Said 28-year-old Pierre Guiton, a history teacher, last week: "I hope he succeeds . . . but I have no confidence." Few Frenchmen, indeed, knew enough about their Premier to judge his mettle...
...efforts to combat French inflation and revive French industry. First, he had tried a partial return to a free economy, with franc devaluation, open trading in gold and dollars, lifting of many price controls. But when, on Socialist insistence, Schuman had called in 5,000-franc notes, many Frenchmen (especially farmers) had lost confidence in their currency. Prices continued to shoot upward. In a month the cost of onions and potatoes went up 50%, mutton 20%, carrots...
...year-old O'Brady is almost a Parisian. She arrived in Paris ten years ago, and modified her name because, she said, the "Mc" was hard for Frenchmen to pronounce. She combed the Seine bookstalls for 19th Century prints, and painted neat, nicely detailed oils that looked rather 19th Century. When the Nazis put her in a concentration camp, she turned to drawing her fellow prisoners, and learned delicate portraiture in line...