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...Marquis de La fayette stepped ashore at Georgetown, S. C., to help the U. S. win its War of Independence. Last June, 163 years later-less one day-Lafayette's great-great-great-grandson (and therefore an honorary U. S. citizen before being born), Count René de Chambrun, stepped ashore at LaGuardia Field's marine base to try to speed help from the U. S. to hard-pressed France...
...René de Chambrun, a captain of French infantry, is a wiry little man of 33, with the late Nick Longworth for an uncle, a profitable knowledge of the law, both French and American, a host of important connections, a taste for driving too fast in an automobile and an inborn capacity for landing out of any catastrophe on his feet. With all these qualifications, he was unable to do his job for France. Ten days after he arrived in the U. S., at the moment when he was pleading his country's case at a luncheon...
...French Indo-China itself open rebellion against Vichy, with 95% of the French colony backing General de Gaulle was reported. General Julien François René Martin, commanding the Indo-Chinese forces, announced that he would resign if the Japanese demands were granted. The Ile de France, interned at Singapore by the British while en route to French Indo-China with a cargo of airplanes, was reported at Saïgon, headquarters of pro-De Gaulle forces, with its cargo intact. British diplomatic circles even declared that Admiral Decoux had forsaken Vichy and cast his lot with De Gaulle...
Watching him buttle, John Barrymore once said: "You played that as if you came from a long line of butlers." Died. Francis Luis Mora, 65, Uru guayan-born U. S. artist, member of the National Academy, whose portrait of War ren G. Harding hangs in the White House ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933 he painted himself and wife as he imagined they would look in 1953, predicted an American Renaissance in that year...
...begins every Friday night over Mutual affiliate station WRAL the prisoners' broadcast from North Carolina's brown, brick Central State Prison just a few blocks from the business centre of Raleigh. Started eight months ago by six-foot, 240-pound Ren Hoek as part of the recreational activities of which he was director, the show began with a kazoo player, a piano pounder, a drummer. Inmates took part on the program only as a reward for good behavior the preceding week, soon made it the "shortest half hour of the week" for their 900 fellow prisoners...