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...other country the fall of a Cabinet in war time is a major crisis. In France it is bad enough. But Frenchmen who in peacetime think no more of yanking a Premier than Americans think of yanking a pitcher out of the box, were not unduly upset-not even when a report got about that the Cabinet had fallen because one box of ballots had accidentally gone uncounted. Already those in the know had heard who the next Premier would be: Paul Reynaud, brilliant Finance Minister, considered No. 2 in the Cabinet of which Edouard Daladier had been...
Anastasie, the puritanical, tight-lipped old maid who symbolizes censorship to Frenchmen (TIME, Dec. 4), fought for her life last week as protests against her were made in the Chamber of Deputies. Socialist Leader Leon Blum made the strongest accusations, terming what Anastasie had done as "absolute incompetence" and "ridiculous ignorance." Then he produced statistics to show her devastating effect on French publicity abroad: "Out of every 100 lines of information published by U. S. newspapers France obtains five, Germany...
...often being lost altogether. This anxiety, together with all the other ordeals, caused many to have a nervous breakdown. There were many different types of people among this large group of men. Jews and non-Jews were together&151;unlike German camps. There were Germans, Austrians, Spaniards and even Frenchmen of German descent who had served in the French army. Among this mixed crowd many disputes and quarrels arose; the bricks and stones were used as missiles. Lion Feuchtwanger was in our camp. There was no canteen in the camp, so the Austrians managed to smuggle in food stuffs which...
...Altogether, about 8,000 volunteers have already joined up with the Finns, according to Sir Walter Citrine. Of these, about 5,500 are Swedes, 1,000 Norwegians, 600 Danes, and the rest Frenchmen, Dutch men, Belgians, Poles, Americans, a few Estonians who crossed the Gulf of Finland in fishing boats under the nose of the Russian fleet...
Five million Frenchmen are now in uniform. Although Germany has some 6,000,000 men under arms, the Reich is almost twice as populous as France, has nothing like the same man power shortage on the home front. Thus there has been for millions of Frenchwomen no question of seeking war work. It has been inescapably bequeathed them by their...