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Thomas Mann, German author in ex, ile who last year became a U.S. citizen, wrote an article for the liberal monthly, Free World, also prophesied a black future for Germans in general, for German writers in particular: "To be a German author -what will that be? Back of every sentence ... in our language stands a broken . . . burnt-out people, bewildered about itself and its history . . . the fearful accumulation of hatred round about will not permit it to emerge from its boundaries-a people that can never show its face again...
...Tanguy is a lean, hard-bitten Parisian who, in the days when he used to be a boilermaker, was known simply as Tanguy. He became Rol when he headed the French section of the International Brigade in Spain. As Colonel Rol-Tanguy he headed the F.F.I, in the Ile-de-France region (Paris plus the Departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise). Last August, during the battle of Paris, the Swedish Minister and a French military delegate negotiated an armistice with the German garrison. But Colonel Rol-Tanguy denounced it, ordered his Maquis to continue street fighting. It was this...
...agree. For a time his headquarters on the Rue St. Dominique were cut off from telephonic communication with the War Ministry in the same building. Government ministers and C.N.R. representatives argued the issue. Last week it was settled. Colonel Rol-Tanguy went out as F.F.I, chief for Ile-de-France. His successor: General Revers, ex-postal clerk and a veteran FFIer. Colonel Rol-Tanguy remained as General Revers' chief of staff...
...Paris had lost its Ile Saint-Louis and Place des Vosges, or Vienna its Hofburg and its Opera House on the Ringstrasse. For the mellow buildings near the Ponte Vecchio, on either side of the Arno, formed one of the most cherished views in the world. Most of that crowded, encrusted skyline is now gone. "Palace after palace, dating from the 14th to the 16th Century, are heaps of rubble. In the wreckage lie such things as the ancient manuscripts, books and art objects of the Societa Colombaria. . . ."* Total or heavy destruction included...
...heart of Paris along the silent river Seine. On a lovely spring morning those who sat on deck beheld history unfold before their eyes. Between floating laundry barges, tall poplars, lines of motionless fishermen, they passed within a stone's throw of Daumier's house on the Ile St. Louis. Gliding under the great city's bridges, they threaded their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments of men for those of nature as the steamer...