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When Leon Blum, onetime Premier of France, was attacked as an "unconscious" German agent by the reactionary Paris Matin, he wrote an answer for his own Socialist daily, Le Populaire, that began: "We don't see how censorship could prohibit us from making a legitimate reply." The rest was censored. Next week Editor Blum tried a trick that worked for Georges Clemenceau in War I: he sent copies of a censored article by mail to members of the Chamber of Deputies. They were seized by postal censors...
First to feel the decrees were three frankly Nazi papers in Alsace, which immediately ceased publication. Paris news-organs which have been printing favorable German "news" lately are Le Matin, Le Journal, La Liberte, Le Jour, Gringoire. Principal anti-Semitic newspapers affected are Je Suis Partout and L'Action Fran-faise...
...funnywoman, gave a lesson last week in how to win a lawsuit. Theatrical Agent Edgar Allen was suing her for $34,000 in commissions. Morning the case was scheduled to start Miss Brice sent word she was very tired, would like to sleep. The Judge granted a postponement until matinée time. When Miss Brice showed up, she sat next to her estranged husband Billy Rose, gaily chatted with him. On the stand, she was vague, noncommittal. Asked about her first conversation with Plaintiff Allen, she observed: "I think it started as a touch." Asked whether...
...almost none, that it was his wife's work. For six years thereafter the collaboration persisted, with Colette writing the books and her husband signing them. Divorcing him in 1906, she acted for a time, married Diplomat Henri de Jouvenel in 1910, became a leading contributor to Le Matin, dramatic critic on another paper, editor of a publishing house, author of some 30 volumes of plays, novels, short stories, essays...
Died, Henry de Jouvenel, 59, French Senator, statesman and diplomat, head of the French Congress for the Defense of Peace, onetime Minister of Public Instruction, onetime editor of Le Matin, divorced husband of pert Novelist Colette; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered in the Champs Elysees, where his body was found; in Paris. He distinguished himself as Ambassador to Italy in 1933 by getting Benito Mussolini's signature to the Italo-Anglo-Franco-German Four Power Pact, as High Commissioner in Syria by firmly squelching a revolt of the Druse tribesmen which had got his predecessor into serious difficulties. Eight...