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...Monsieur le Maire, will you kindly designate 30 hostages...
...every home the King left a small sum of money. One old seamstress refused to accept her envelope, saying, "There are people worse off than I, monsieur." When the abbe told her the identity of her benefactor, she accepted. One man refused, saying, "I work for my living." It was night when Abbé Froidure drove the King back to Laeken Palace. Said Baudouin: "It's scandalous that people are living in such conditions." To Health Minister de Taeye he said: "Something must be done about it." Asked next day exactly what he was going to do about...
...angry voices, 187 witnesses had told their stories of the Gestapo torture chamber in the Rue de la Pompe in Paris (TIME, Dec.1). When Witness Jacques Benoist tearfully began shouting. Judge Robert Chadefaux cautioned: "You promised to testify without hate. Try to be calm." Retorted Benoist: "It is hard, Monsieur le President, after eight years, to remember these things and to see these men still alive before me." Benoist did not have long to wait. Last week the court sentenced 15 of the accused to death, including a rubber-hose expert, Georges Guicciardini and his son Adrien; three, including another...
...little Gironde town of Cenon, where Communists are particularly strong, Town Constable Charles Magne reported to the mayor one day: "Monsieur le Maire, I have the honor to inform you that disorderly elements have been busy last night defacing our fair city with unsightly inscriptions." Sure enough, the decent walls of Cenon were plastered with such discourteous signs as "U.S. Go Home" and "Ridgway-Assassin." Said Mayor René Cassagne: "I hereby order you to take a bucket of whitewash and efface these inscriptions." Constable Magne blotted out the signs-but next morning there were more of them...
...Monsieur Denis," snapped the little businessman, "each man earns his living in his own line. Mine is leather. Yours-ropes!" From the Communists came embarrassed sputters, from the rest of the chamber, laughter. Soon after, the Assembly again gave him its shaky confidence...