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Said Paris-Presse: "What human voice could speak in that titanic decor as the images flew! After the showing, the delegates returned to Luxembourg Palace, where fragile peace struggles to be born. . . ." The Paris-Matin: "We can't keep ourselves from, thinking of the Apocalypse. It is overwhelming. . . The delegates, despite their diplomatic lack of reaction, were overwhelmed...
...Paul Reynaud's 1940 Cabinet, powerful Jean Prouvost, agitated for Hitler's armistice terms, spoke out against Britain. To Parisians, during the occupation, the name of his Paris-Soir (circ. 1,400,000) became as irrevocably linked with German propaganda as those of Le Temps, Le Matin and others which spoke in Nazi accents...
...months ago her father, Publisher Jean Luchaire of Le Matin, had been shot as the archcollaborator of the Paris press during the occupation. There was nothing much anyone could say for his daughter. Said the judge: "While Frenchwomen suffered and fought, you led a gay life. . . ." Quavered Corinne: "I was young and stupid . . . I did not realize. . . ." Cried her lawyer: "What can you expect of a girl brought up in the depths of the elite...
...most of the critics raved. Cried Combat: "Eisenstein has found again his incomparable style." The conservative Paris-Matin found "a power and color that not even American films have ever given us." Even Figaro, which panned the film for "extravagance, exaggerated looks and declamatory gestures," recognized "Eisenstein's accomplished art." The Socialist weekly Gavroche went all out: "This film crushes with its monumental mass everything that French screens have known since the beginning...
...guarantee" that it would not be tampered with, considered a slight case of press control as dangerous as a slight case of cancer. Communists and Socialists feared a return to France's prewar corrupt press standards, which reached the reeking point in the '30s when Le Matin and other papers sold out to the Germans. The Communist Humanité tiraded against allowing the press to be controlled by the wealthy, warned that "trusts" must not "dominate public opinion contrary to real freedom." In the drafting committee, the Communist-Socialist limitations on press freedom were approved...