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...infancy. Featuring a distinctly amateur grade of photography and a plot which could not have passed the most leuient English A instructor, this film is definitely to be avoided. If you're a good linguist and have the sort of imagination which reads vicious innuendo into the simplest "bon jour" or "mauvais unit," you may get a kick out of this picture; otherwise you might just as well try Harper's for light reading. By far the most interesting feature of the program is the short, "The Birth of Life." This title's a take, too. "The Birth...
...State and of labor, which is that of Nazi Germany." Still paying lip service to gold and liberal capitalism, the men of Vichy indicated through their actions last week which "mysticism" Petain France endorsed. "Germany invites us to reconstruct Europe," wrote Rightist Deputy Fernand-Laurent in Le Jour. "I do not hesitate to say that to the extent that French interests, our independence and our dignity are safeguarded, the new France must accept this invitation." Neither independence nor dignity was so much in evidence as a disposition to curry favor with the conquerors by wreaking vengeance on the Frenchmen...
...Justice Raphael Alibert will examine the case of each person naturalized since that date and will have the power to revoke citizenship if it deems the individual unworthy "of being a Frenchman. "Attracted by the ease of our life and by the prospect of quick profits," wrote Le Jour in sentences reminiscent of Germany's Alfred Rosenberg, "a crowd of half-breeds and ex-patriots have rushed to our country. Thanks to the imprudent generosity of certain politicians and the political calculations of others, French citizenship has been handed out at the rate of a battalion a month. This...
Louisville, Ky. is a one-paper town. Barry Bingham's proud old Courier-Jour nal (with its evening edition, the Times) constitutes a virtual news monopoly in the middle Ohio Valley: it has no serious competitor nearer than Cincinnati. Both papers are healthy, with circulations (Courier-Journal, 109,361; Times, 121,854) that are still growing...
JEAN-CHARLES HARVEY Le Jour Montreal...