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...Elysee Palace, grave, bespectacled Mollet rose from his place beside French President Rene Coty and walked briskly out through the glass doors to face a crowd of newsmen in the cobblestoned courtyard. Calmly, he read from a typewritten sheet: "Before the Ministers' meeting I offered to Monsieur Coty, President of the Republic, my resignation and that of my government." Reason: he could not go along with the U.S. and British decision to accept Nasser's conditions for using the Suez Canal. Said Mollet bitterly: "If the U.N. must systematically give in to the desires of dictators . . . then...
...wacky little vaudeville routines, in which a stock Englishman and a stock Frenchman alternate the pratfalls. Major (ret.) William Marmaduke Thompson, C.S.I., D.S.O., O.B.E. (played by Jack Buchanan, the British George M. Cohan), is a cuff-shooting old harrumph who has left his best years East of Suez. Monsieur Taupin (played by Noel-Noel, a comedian who looks like a French edition of the late Robert Benchley) is a middle-aged owl with a skid-mark mustache who leaps at every idea, flailing with all extremities, as though it were a mouse to be torn limb from limb...
...between Gauguin and Bernard came when Gauguin proclaimed himself, in Bernard's words, "the chief of the symbolist school in painting," and Bernard felt that he had been betrayed. Years after the event Bernard recalled that his indignant sister tackled Gauguin in the middle of an auction room. "Monsieur Gauguin," she cried, "you are a traitor. You have violated your pledge and are doing the greatest harm to my brother, who has been the true initiator of the art which you now claim for yourself." According to Bernard, "Gauguin did not answer, and withdrew...
...howls against Discounter Gattegno's "American plague" were just as vehement as those hurled at his American counterparts. Sternly calling on manufacturers to boycott his booming business, French retail-trade papers scornfully labeled him "Monsieur 20%." Virtually the entire Paris press, fearful of losing regular accounts, refused his advertising. Thomson-Houston, the big French equivalent of General Electric, refused to sell him its appliances...
...Discounter Gattegno,who grossed about $1,500,000 last year, plans to open a new American-style supermarket this spring with three floors of food, appliances and clothing, smack in the heart of the poor people's Paris near Gare St.-Lazare. Its name: Chez Monsieur 20%. Says he: "I will make new enemies among French retailers. But what interests me are the customers. They are my friends...