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Bound up with the election was the fate of Belgium's exiled King Leopold III. All parties wanted the monarchy, but only the Catholics, fervently keynoting the Belgian anthem's refrain, "Le Roi, la loi, la liberté" had campaigned to have Leopold back. Brussels thought the reluctant left-wing parties would agree to recall him-to abdicate in favor of his 15-year-old heir, Prince Baudouin...
Moreover, there isn't much action - only jokes about the tomcat in men, the pussy cat in women, the peacock in actors. Nor has famed French Cinema Director Rene Clair (A Nous, La Liberté!) shown the French touch in his staging. Everybody just cavorts...
...through a mummery with the old Marshal who is no longer strong enough to steer. Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain would stand at salute while buglers sounded taps before Vichy's memorial to the 1,300,000 Frenchmen who died under the banner of liberté, égalité, fraternité in World...
...woman with white hair who writes to you, one of those teachers who have taught in the villages "hidden in the folds of France" as well as in the fine cities of the plain. Here as there, within these whitewashed walls where the noble device of the Republic-Liberté, Egalité, Fraternite-imposes itself on the eyes of all as the glorious label of a regime, she teaches moral cleanliness, courage in action, respect for the given word, tolerance. . . . May those who wrought the last hours of our defeat be forever castigated in the history of our country...
...solemn hour for lovers of freedom, especially in the U. S. Although the Declaration of Independence was written 13 years before the Bastille fell, the American and French Revolutions had the same ideological roots, and in the minds of Americans and Frenchmen alike the words Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité evoked the same ideals as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. For a century and a quarter the U. S. and France watched those ideals spread across most of the world. For the last few terribly quick years, together they have watched them crumble...