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...they abruptly changed their minds. Like Hitler and like Stalin, dictatorial Franco spoke of his gang as constituting "The Revolution" and announced that it is the State. In 1936 this has become the usual crude variant of Louis XIV's elegant platitude, L'etat c'est moi. Immediately the Peace Conference gave fledgling Dictator Franco a deep nudge in the ribs by intimating that they had previously intended to recognize his Government because they had understood it was going to be democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Natural Democracy | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...still has that intimate night-club manner which endears her to a large slice of the public and she sings in her dramatic way several noteworthy new songs. She has something which seems to make everybody forget that her voice is not among the best. Yes, she sings "Parlez-moi d'Amour...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/21/1935 | See Source »

...Bravo Citizen D. J. Foss! . . . Down with undertakers, and their ballyhooing, cemetery lot speculation, sumptuous undertaking palaces, etc.! What do the dead care for a real mahogany casket or a metal one? Aprés moi-I don't give a damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1935 | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...Saarlouis, endowing it richly with his august name and commanding that it be fortified by his great Engineer Vauban, nothing would have seemed more preposterous to the Sun King than any question of whether the Saar is German or French. Having said "L'etat c'est moi," His Majesty would certainly have troubled no more about Saar nationality than to say "The Saar is mine!" Last week a lumpy lot of Teuton farmers and workmen from various parts of the U. S. enjoyed free passage on German ships as they were rushed Saarward to vote in the plebiscite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Deutsch Ist Die Saar! | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...three drastic decree laws just-folksy Broadcaster Kozlowski said not a word to "Moi przyjaciele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: My Friends. . . . | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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