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French taxes are high, but not so high as they seem, for Frenchmen are more expert at evasion than their Government is at collection. Shocked therefore is many a Frenchman if he finds a tax cannot be evaded. Shocked last week were the Widow Corneuil and her two strapping sons when a tax collector came to their farm near the village of La Fleche, 165 miles southeast of Paris, and insisted on the payment of 200 francs ($6.40) of long overdue taxes. They slammed and locked the door in the impudent man's face. Back to town went...
Into the artistic spotlight which remains jumpily fixed on Picasso's generation a few younger Frenchmen have lately popped. Last week one of these was introduced to the U. S. by Manhattan Dealer Julien Levy, whose eye is on Paris like a hawk's. The debutant was Rene Pierre Tal-Coät, a shy, husky, onetime Breton sailor, now 32, who has lived for ten years in one sixth-floor room at 5 Rue 'de Plaisance, teaching himself how to paint. In probably the first period of French history when a painter could win repute without...
Since close-mouthed silence in political matters is the rule among army officers of the Great Powers, Frenchmen attached unusual importance last week to a brief statement by General Julien Claude Marie Dufieux. Inspector General of Infantry and of Schools for Officers, a Wartime protege of Marshal Petain. General Dufieux coolly announced that two months ago he received convincing evidence that the Soviet Embassy in Paris was assisting French Communists to prepare a coup d'etat which was to have seized the Government on November 16, and laid this evidence before famed General Marie Gustave Gamelin, chief...
...fact that the Soviet Government did not immediately explode with angry protests and denials of such grave charges by a French general on active duty. Equally significant was the fact that such charges had been made against a country which is nominally France's military ally. Frenchmen were left to infer 1) that the charges were true, 2) that the French General Staff considered France's military alliance with Russia about washed...
...women and children in the debris. Soon the Battle of Teruel became a battle of all nations as the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Battalion and other foreign battalions moved into the Leftist lines. New Year's Eve saw Spaniards, Italians, U. S. citizens, Moors, Germans, Czechs and Frenchmen all fighting for a town on a river bank about the size of Emporia, Kans...