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...lonely years, a long-legged lamppost of a man who lives in an unpretentious country manor 125 miles southeast of Paris has been watching and waiting for the jerry-built Fourth Republic to collapse at his feet, as he always said it would. General Charles de Gaulle, at 61, still believes that in the "hour of catastrophe" France will thrust aside its inefficient coalitions, and turn instead to the only political force which has uncompromisingly opposed every postwar government it could not control: his own militant Rally of the French People (R.P.F...
...score of Dutch policemen surrounded a baronial house near Amsterdam before dawn one day last week, while seven others, led by Amsterdam Police Chief Jeremias Posthuma, knocked on the front door. The master of the manor, Count van Rechteren Limpurg, appeared. "We have come for Westerling," announced Chief Posthuma. "My guest left last night," said the count icily. The chief and his men went inside to see for themselves...
Incidentally, Ronnie Knox, during the war, was the victim of one of life's most amusing little ironies. He had always been a kindly misogynist, and was genuinely distressed by the close presence of females. However, the manor house where he had retired to translate the Bible was, as a wartime emergency, inundated with teen-age students from a London convent, and Ronnie was forced to spend most of his war listening to the confessions of hundreds of female adolescents. Being a great and humble priest, he undoubtedly bore this cross eagerly and brilliantly...
...Wasn't there anyone on your staff who recognized the real outrage in your story-that the state is usurping a natural right of parents to decide how their children should be educated? . . . NEIL MCCAFFREY JR. Pelham Manor...
Camera technique and setting contribute greatly to the tension in Another Man's Poison. All the action is confined to an English manor and the surrounding moors. One shot of Miss Davis (rejected by her lover and abandoned by Merrill) standing alone in the huge manor is particularly impressive. The dialogue is good all the way and frequently comical. Miss Davis continues to speak her thoughts in her inimitable blunt fashion: "I killed my husband because I hated...