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First before the Paris court came Georges Suarez, tough-minded former editor of the collaborationist Aujourd'hui. During the Nazi occupation, his editorials had exhorted Frenchmen to betray members of the Resistance. "Informing used to be a necessity," he said, "now it is an obligation." Suarez also liked to quote French Catholic Writer Joseph de Maistre: "The executioner is the keystone of modern society." Solemnly the Paris judge and his four assistants listened to a reading of Suarez' editorials. Then they passed sentence: for Editor Suarez, execution...
...Henry de Montherlant, arrogant, aristocratic novelist, enraged patriotic Frenchmen with his book Solstice de Juin, turned up for the opening of his new play, Reine Morte, with a bust of himself under his arm and a pocketful of medals struck with his profile. All Montherlant plays have been banned...
Maurice Thorez had been the ideological father of Leon Blum's Popular Front. In the middle '30s Frenchmen called him "the French Stalin." During the period of the Russo-German pact, he had condemned France's "imperialist" war against Nazi Germany. When the Daladier Government outlawed the French Communist Party in September 1939, Thorez deserted from the Army, went underground...
...Last week General Charles de Gaulle's Government set Feb. 1 for its first elections, for local offices only. Frenchmen thought it sheer optimism to expect some 2,000,000 deportees and prisoners home from Germany so soon...
Heaven Helps Those. Frenchmen themselves pitched in with a will. G-5 teams cleared the rubble from shattered Norman towns with bulldozers borrowed from the engineers...