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...course of the anniversary celebrations, Moscow's short-wave radio gave the rest of the world a thought for the week. It triumphantly pointed out that the British had rejected Churchill, the French Laval and America the party of Roosevelt. In fact it added "there is hardly a bourgeois state where over these ten years a single leading party has remained in power. . . . The constitutions of these states demonstrated their impracticability. Only in the U.S.S.R. is the same one party, the Communist Party, still in power...
...Past. Most formal sessions were held in the Athénée (birthplace of the Red Cross). Corridor conferences were held in a Geneva restaurant whose walls were hung with malicious caricatures of statesmen of the Europe which had just died. Cigaret smoke spiraled spectrally across figures of Laval, Briand, Chamberlain, Mussolini, as the intellectuals discussed the mistakes of the past and tried to lay a groundwork for a new pan-European peace of the mind...
...shocked public the party organ Humanité explained next day that the Communist jurors had struck because, of 105 Vichy officials indicted, two alone (Darnand, Laval) had been given death and most of the others had been flatly, or virtually, acquitted. In the Chamber, Communist deputies demanded the High Court be reorganized; they demanded an Assembly-elected prosecutor (rather than an impartial state appointee), and wanted the jury's secret deliberations opened to the public...
F.D.R. without Applesauce. As the book begins, this global Rover Boy is tête à tête with brackish Pierre Laval, who confides: "Money ... is like toilet paper, when you need it you need it bad." With this pearl rattling in his diplomatic pouch, Lanny leaves for London. He has to get a wiggle on because Upton Sinclair wants him 1) to take in the blitz, 2) to get back to F.D.R. in time to ram through the destroyer deal. He does both, easy as falling off a green baize table, and Roosevelt admiringly admits: "I need...
...night last week Andrei Vishinsky, Russian-Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, strode into the paneled, tapestried chamber of Paris' Palace of Justice where Pétain and Laval were tried for treason. For two hours he spoke on "Principles of Soviet Law" to a group of 200 French Resistance lawyers and their families...