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Elsewhere in France, the talk was about a British bulldog and a French poodle who were joined by a lanky wolfhound as they strolled along the Rue de la Paix. "Well," said the latter in a strong Russian accent, "how are things with you? Have you been getting enough to eat?" "Oh, things are picking up a bit in England," said the bulldog, "but we've had rather a bad time of it, y'know. Rations and so forth." "Oh, yes," said the poodle, "and here we're not much better off. Why, during the occupation...
Meantime, foreign correspondents in Paris received elegantly printed invitations asking them to a "cocktail de la paix" to be given the following evening, from 6 to 8,-in the offices of the Communist daily paper, L'Humanité. Eyebrows shot up, for it was the first time "L'Huma" had ever done anything like this. Few foreigners ever get past the guards at the entrance of the paper...
...great form, he grabbed two American correspondents and said they must drink to peace. He raised his glass and shouted, "Here is to peace! The whole world wants peace . . . France needs peace . . . the American people want peace, they've shown it at the elections . . . a la paix...
...small Galerie de la Paix at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, with 16 flags flapping from the parapets outside, the 16 Marshall Plan nations last week signed the "Convention for European Economic Cooperation." The central office of OEEC-to be established in Paris-would work on such cooperative procedures as lowering customs barriers, stabilizing currencies, allocating labor forces and raw materials...
...That's right, lovey-dove, you seem a shade less stupid than your sisters." Stupid or not, they all wanted to know about Oscar Wilde, who had just completed his prison sentence in England for immorality and could be seen drinking his absinthe at the Cafe de la Paix. Papa advised that they be enlightened in 20 years. Eleanor, the loveliest one, first accepted, then jilted English Novelist Arnold Bennett. Writes Anne: "A chit was throwing over a good heart, a fine brain and an emerald ring, all belonging to a literary gentleman of some prominence, aged thirty-nine...