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...MOTHERS' ANTHOLOGY - Edited by William Lyon Phelps - Doubleday, Doran...
ARTHUR T. LYON...
...Germans, under Gauleiter Josef Burckel, gave them a few hours to pack a suitcase and acquire not more than 2,000 francs in cash, then shoved them across the border. Each day five to seven trains, flying the medieval cross of Lorraine, carried some 6,000 Lorrainers to Lyon, thence south to the Midi. Mostly the evacuees were farmers, welcome to the fallow land of southern France...
...France, mountainous Edouard Herriot, three times Premier, last President of the Chamber of Deputies, Mayor of Lyon, whose booming voice has resounded in French politics since 1905, was arrested by the secret police of Vichy. Having sought security from the Nazis in Switzerland, M. Herriot erred in believing unoccupied France was safe for Radical Socialists, returned...
Bruce C. Hopper spoke to the residents of Adams House last night at their Long Table dinner. William Lyon "Billy" Phelps, Yale's famed patron of Browning and Tennyson, was unable to be present on account of a severe cold...