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...scandalous display of vice." On church doors throughout France Caroline Chérie got a five rating on the Index of forbidden films: to be seen neither by adults nor children. Said Martine: "I'm flabbergasted! And what do they think about Mary Magdalene?" Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery. But the film was passed by the French censorship, and with Cardinal Gerlier's unintentioned advertisement, Frenchmen flocked to see Caroline Chérie. Paris receipts in the first three weeks were $140,000. The film was rushed...
Each day, Sir Winston opened the discussion by giving the Churchill view of this or that aspect of world affairs. Occasionally, some other P.M. would impress himself on the others-Malan, dour and superior; Canada's St. Laurent, dry and precise; Nehru, quick and likable but with an attachment to ideology that bored some of the battered politicos around him. But it was Churchill's conference throughout. He won Commonwealth backing on four big issues...
...Played host to Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Canada's courtly Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent paid his first call on President Eisenhower last week and Washington rolled out its plushiest red carpet. In two days with the President and other Administration leaders, St. Laurent covered a lot of ground. Among topics discussed: ¶ The St. Lawrence Seaway (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Asked how he felt about the seaway aftef 'talking to President Eisenhower, St. Laurent answered diplomatically : neither encouraged nor discouraged. ¶ U.S.-Canadian trade. St. Laurent worried about U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, particularly about a bill, now pending before the House of Representatives, which...
Most important result of the visit: St. Laurent came to know Eisenhower and his team, by all accounts got along with them swimmingly. Said St. Laurent of the talks: "Very pleasant, very interesting . . . very fruitful...