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...RENÉ C. CHAMPOLLION...
...fresh realism of the little maid who from answering doorbells and making up the beds, sees everybody, finds out every thing, at last knows more about what is going on in the house than the masters themselves. Other books by correspond ents: The Men Around Churchill ($3) by René Kraus; That Day Alone ($3.75 ) by Pierre van Paassen...
...French Equatorial Africa De Gaulle got results. He sent René Pleven there. René Pleven was a zealot for continuing the fight. After he had pointed out that Equatorial Africa depends for its livelihood on the British-controlled coastline, after he had told the inhabitants what would happen to their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...
Even among the exuberant political beards of France, the beard of Socialist René Marx Dormoy was something special. Its grizzled fullness was a godsend to cartoonists in the days of the Popular Front, when Dormoy as Minister of the Interior was making things hot for the Croix de Feu and the Cagoulards (Hooded Ones), a reactionary Gallic Ku Klux Klan...
Salient titles: René de Chambrun's De La Lorraine à Washington; Laval, by Henri Torres, a French liberal lawyer who knew the No. 1 French Quisling intimately...