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...jittery period for collaborators. They were still smarting over the R.A.F. raid on the German-supplying Renault automobile factories in suburban Paris (TIME, March 16). There was no longer any doubt that Britain would attack pro-German operations on French soil, even though the attack might kill Frenchmen. Moreover, there were signs that most Frenchmen supported the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Admiral Claims | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

Other books have described the death of France. This book describes how France lay dying for 20 years. It is an alienist's intimate case history of the progressive political schizophrenia between Right and Left-a disorder which infected all Frenchmen and all French classes, a disorder so incurable that the Nazi invasion seems almost like an inevitable mercy killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Madame Tata | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

When Hitler shouted, "As for Madame Tabouis, that wisest of women, she knows what I am about to do even before I know it myself," 50,000,000 Frenchmen laughed. For Author Tabouis, with possibly the best sources of any European journalist, often did not show good judgment in sifting the true from the sensational. She promulgated not only scoops but fables. As her consciousness grew that France was doomed, so did her hysteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Madame Tata | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

These sibylline leaves, raked together by Novelist John Cournos, are a publisher's response to the modern impulse that makes Adolf Hitler keep a stable of astrologers, makes desperate Frenchmen con the optimistic prophecies of 7th-Century St. Odile, makes the current U.S. vogue for books about Nostradamus and his dubious doggerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Through a Glass, Darkly | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...paleontologists, which used to roam the island until a few thousand years ago. Aepyornis was ten feet tall, could not fly, laid eggs bigger than footballs. The Malagasy still find an occasional Aepyornis egg and sell it for as much as five or ten head of cattle to the Frenchmen, who then sell it to a collector or museum for as much as five or ten thousand dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADAGASCAR: Aepyornis Island | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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