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...Think Gallantly." At Orly the President doffed his hat briefly during ruffles and flourishes, then, after consulting France's President Rene Coty, put it on again and stood at military salute during The Star-Spangled Banner and La Marseillaise. As he slowly trooped the line of a 280-man French air force honor guard, reporters noted that he seemed to be dragging his left foot, just slightly. Explained his physician, Dr. Howard McC. Snyder: "Sometimes he has that West Point [football] knee...
ROGER CASEMENT, IRISH PATRIOT, ENGLISH TRAITOR (328 pp.)-Rene MacColl -Norton...
...Casement affair, one of the century's most sensational treason cases, has now been reconstructed in a fascinating biography by British Journalist Rene MacColl, who tells the story of a brilliant, unsavory and enigmatic would-be hero...
President Rene Coty called in ex-Premier Robert Schuman, 71, a Catholic Popular Republican whose name is stamped on the European coal-steel pool. The President asked him to make a quick survey of France's immediate financial crisis before Schuman or someone else attempted to form a government. Warned Schuman: "The problems facing us now must be solved immediately. It is a question of hours...
Although the late government of Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury had collapsed over Algeria, the squabbling now turned on how to solve the economic crisis: by year's end France may have no money to pay for imports. After a talk with President Rene Coty, Pinay declared: "In view of the gravity of the situation explained to me by the President, I do not think I have the right to refuse." In 1952 Conservative Antoine Pinay had made himself a hero by "saving the franc." But last week his proposals to hold the line on taxes, slash expenditures and economize...