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Hungry, Italian women (voting for the first time) fainted as they stood in line. Frenchmen went through their fourth election in a year, groping determinedly for a "Western" solution to the 20th Century's contradictions...
Hunger & History. Marguerite Stihl#233;'s addled protest was important. Thousands of Frenchmen were voting Communist to express discontent and opposition, even though the Communists are in the Government. Maurice Thorez knows well that hunger is his most effective fellow traveler. By focusing attention on France's economic ills he draws French attention away from the issues of dictatorship and Russian control...
...Maurice Thorez deserted, going through Switzerland and Germany into Russia, while other Frenchmen like Léon Blum stayed in France to defend their country. A leader shouldn't quit when his men are in danger. To shout: 'Thorez to power' is to serve the cause of Russia...
Last week Allah was good to him. Sixty thousand Parisians, the biggest sports crowd since the war, squeezed into Colombes Stadium to see Ben, the Black Pearl, and his fellow Frenchmen in red, white & blue outfits play the heavily favored English team. Ben stole the ball constantly, executed short delicate passes over English heads, did more work than any three teammates combined to beat England...
...tall, blond Father Franz Stock, prewar head of the German Catholic Church in Paris. During the Nazi occupation he served as priest in prisons and hospitals, and administered last rites to thousands of Frenchmen executed by the Nazis. He visited them in their cells, rode with them to their execution, buried them, sent their belongings to their families...