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...second-floor bedroom of Washington's Blair House, Léon Blum put on his blue & white striped pajamas, settled down to read François René de Chateaubriand's Atala, American Indian romance told of the days when "France possessed . . . a vast empire stretching from Labrador to Florida, from the shores of the Atlantic to the remotest lakes of upper Canada." Now France's imperial glory was gone, and her aging but active special emissary, only ten months out of a Nazi prison, had come to the shores of the former colony to plead...
Duhamel's colleagues put their cocked hats together, chose instead five Old Guardists-Baron Ernest Seillière, philosopher; Jean Tharaud, novelist; René Grousset, orientalist; Octave Aubry, historian; Robert d'Harcourt, specialist on Germany. Duhamel forthwith resigned. "But why?" chided his late associates. Duhamel's favorites, they said, did not want to be elected anyway...
...Quel malheur . . . another one," sighed Monsieur René Besniers. A jeep had just crashed into the window of his Paris pharmacy. Since Druggist Besniers opened his shop at the teeming corner of rue Dunkerque and rue du Faubourg Poissonière 36 years ago, 108 different vehicles have hurtled into his store...
...roots of Existentialism go back 100 years to Sören Kierkegaard, the lonely Danish theologian and rebel who was obsessed by the one tragic question: how is human existence possible? In the face of the 19th Century's positivism which arrogantly asserted the triumph of man, Kierkegaard threw his tragic answer: man exists simultaneously on two irreconcilable planes, in time and in eternity. So man lives in insoluble tension ; in time he exists not as an individual but only as an irrelevant member of a species; in eternity it is only the individual who exists, without society...
...Assembly must understand," said France's Finance Minister René Pleven, "that we cannot ask aid abroad without first putting our house in order ourselves." After a searching session, the Assembly understood. It approved: 1) a devaluation of the franc (119 to the dollar, instead of 50 to the dollar); 2) a $550,000,000 loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank; 3) French participation in the Bretton Woods agreement...