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...Finance Committee of the French Senate last week issued a shocking, 100-page report on bungling in the nationalized French aircraft industry. The report compiled by Senator Marcel Pellenc, who enjoys a reputation for honesty and technical know-how, charged&: ¶ Although the French aircraft industry had been voted a $250 million credit for modern military aircraft, the government has done little or nothing about getting them into production. ¶ France's chief fighter plane, the British-designed Vampire 5, now in production at a "normal rate," is obsolete. ¶ France's only up-to-date fighter plane...
During a campaign speech Mme. Magnan-Pellenc said: "We want to get women and women alone, into governmental power. All the evil there is in the world derives from men. When we do get to power, we will declare men politically unworthy and then, as in the days of the ancient matriarchal tribes, we will no longer know war or famine...
...Magnan-Pellenc's exertions led to a nervous breakdown last fortnight. While she convalesces, the interim torchbearer for the Amazons is tall, slender Mme. Jeanne Mirbel...
Madame Yvonne Magnan-Pellenc of Marseille comes of a long line of rich soapmakers. In the family's heyday, she says, her great-grandfather opened the Marseille Prefecture Ball by escorting the Empress Eugénie on his arm. In these rowdier days, Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has taken to the political soapbox. Her object is to organize women as "The Amazons of Peace." The amazonian slogan: "War on Man, to Get Peace for the World." The first step is to try to win for women the municipal elections of Marseille, where Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has rallied 283 Amazons...
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