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...while the country is held by an enemy, the ruler must stay in mourning. Peter I had imposed the rule in World War I; he had marched with his Serb troops into exile, observed the ritual of grief, not even shaving, until the day of liberation. Serb émigrés, already uneasy lest Peter II throw in his lot with Tito, now feared that he would further shake his standing among those still loyal to him in the faction-split homeland...
...migré editor of one of Europe's great newspapers last week told what happens when a democracy's press is corrupted by its politicians. The country was France. The editor was Pierre Lazareff of Paris-Soir. His Deadline (Random House; $3) was a telling documentation of the thesis that "France was undermined and betrayed from within" because "the French people were systematically misled by a venal and treasonous press...
...year when the German émigrés, having stopped in France before being finally routed from all Europe, swarmed to the U.S. to write about what happens when men and nations fall apart...
...case of balding, banjo-eyed Charles Boyer, the answer is love. Love laughs at locked frontiers, drops M. Boyer, 42, into the U.S. melting pot. As Georges Iscovescu, renowned European gigolo and dancer, he is one of a hotelful of émigrés impatiently waiting to cross into the U.S. from a little Mexican border town. Impatient at the slow arrival of his quota number, he takes a tip from a former dancing partner (Paulette Goddard) who has married her way across the U.S.-Mexican border...
...victorious rebel army." It never came. The Second Invasion. Instead, McClellan came to whip the shattered army into shape, to snub Lincoln, drive out Scott, feud with Stanton, end up in the Chickahominy swamps with thousands of his perfect army dead. New hordes invaded Washington: contractors, inventors, émigrés, cranks...