Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fill Mandel's place at the Ministry of Colonies, the Premier shifted Louis Rollin from the Ministry of Commerce. As new Minister of Commerce he chose Leon Barety, an exponent of closer relations with Italy. To the key post of permanent Secretary General of Foreign Affairs, since 1933 occupied by Alexis Leger ("greatest living diplomat"), Premier Reynaud appointed Frangois Charles-Roux, envoy to the Vatican, an expert on Papal foreign policy...
...George Lovett Kingsland Morris, who had spent his time collecting and even painting abstract art. Result: the rebirth in December 1937 of Partisan Review, as a vigorously, snobbishly radical and experimentalist literary monthly (later quarterly, now six times a year) which snubbed Dictator Joe Stalin, smiled kindly at Comrade Leon Trotsky...
...Germany's side against the Allies, serve as a springboard for German attack upon Britain and France, Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and Fiihrer Hitler had used threats and a Fifth Column. Neither worked. One of the first things that happened last Friday was the arrest of Rexist Leader Leon Degrelle, would-be Nazi Gauleiter of Belgium, and 2,000 of his followers. Force was the Nazis' last resort, and force was met with as effective force as a country of 8,300,000 can bring against one of 100,000,000. For in Leopold the Belgians have found...
...saints (Marx, Engels, Lenin), martyrs (Liebknecht, Luxemburg), doctrine (communist "line"). As in other religions, heresies and schisms occasionally crop up. Heretics are sometimes exiled, often handed over to the secular arm (shot), always excommunicated. Most serious heresy in the eyes of Stalinist true believers is Trotskyism, whose heresiarch is Leon Trotsky, now an exile in Mexico. Trotsky's heretical sect styles itself the Fourth International (5,000 communicants). Until last week its U. S. congregation was the Socialist Workers Party (membership: 2,000), of which hardbitten James Patrick Cannon and full-lipped Max Schachtman were co-pastors...
Died. Julie Daudet, 93, devoted widow of the late great French author Alphonse Daudet (Lettres de Mon Moulin, Tartarin de Tarascon), mother of French Royalist Leader Leon Daudet, herself a writer of books, articles; of old age; in Paris...