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...unconstitutional!" Non-Communists roared with laughter. When asked in the lobby if his party would still vote for Mendès, Duclos shrugged: "Yes, one is not always free to do as he likes." At 2 a.m. the voice of the Assembly President droned out: "419 for, 47 against. Monsieur Mendès-France is invested...
...religious films ever give their saints and martyrs more than a light brush-off in technicolor and extravagance. Monsieur Vincent, a French film produced in 1948, is a notable exception. With the subtle acting of Pierre Fresnay and the excellent photography of Claude Renoir, the film pictures the life of Saint Vincent de Paul simply and movingly...
...performance were the sole standard, Monsieur Vincent might be comparable to Martin Luther. But the life of de Paul, at least as the film presents it, lacks the dramatic struggles and soul-searchings which Luther experienced. The good Saint begins as a priest called to help the poor, and ends with the same firm dedication. The events of his life, significant because they deepen his insight into the grislier side of poverty, seem obscurely connected. For a biographical film, this is probably the more realistic approach, since few men lead lives which come to a climax in the third...
...Frenchman had risked his political neck by rejecting Soviet blandishments (e.g., that France and Russia could "solve" the German problem between them) in defiance of opinion back home. And when Molotov had tried to speak over Bidault's head to the French, Bidault sharply replied: "I would remind Monsieur Molotov that I am the Foreign Minister...
...Empty your attics, Parisians. There may be venerable things in them, but they're less venerable than the lives of babies." As the Abbé strode through a tent shelter late last week, a woman in a chic Persian lamb coat handed him $210 collected from friends. "Monsieur 1'Abbé," she cried. "You have awakened...