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...retrospective show of Bonnard's 35 color symphonies was the talk of the town. Cagey Paris art dealers valued them at 500,000 francs apiece ($4,200), three times their prewar price. Critics and gallery goers wondered whether it meant that postwar Frenchmen wanted a rest from the chaotic world, and from the chaotic painting which had mirrored it for three decades...
...Pestalozzi, French children will speak in French, Dutch in Dutch, Poles in Polish. Boys and girls from each nation will have their own farmhouses, own foster parents and classrooms. The Swiss do not intend to make good Swiss out of the children-just good Frenchmen, good Dutchmen, good Poles, with perhaps a Swiss accent on international tolerance. When they have mastered a trade, and their homelands are ready for them, the Pestalozzians will return...
...capital blossomed forth with a violent attack on the Soviet, including the organs of the Socialist party and the party of Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos. With this bid for German support and apparent jettisoning of the French, party lines were transcended and French Communists stood with all other Frenchmen in their bitter denunciation of the Soviet Union. Previous to the Molotov speech, Harold Laski had, in an article in The Nation, sharply taken issue with the Soviet Foreign Minister over his tactics of obfuscation and mystery--and Laski has been perhaps Russia's most eloquent champion in the Anglo...
...Eiffel Tower still stood above the Champ de Mars, and the Mediterranean Sea, unmoved by apocalyptic whips, still gently lapped Riviera beaches. But Frenchmen felt that it had been a close call...
...Like that of most Frenchmen, Father Grosjean's political geography is confused: Socialist New Zealand is one of the last places in the world where his philosophy would have a chance...