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...itself on this theme with its own special brand of Satan lore, climaxed perhaps by the German Faust-legend. Beauty and the Devil, the latest restatement of the old tale, may be a corruption of previous interpretations, but it's probably just what one would expect from the French. Rene Clair's treatment of the story, at the Brattle this week, is as sparkling and stimulating to the audience as it is subversive to the tragic moral dilemma that earlier Fausts enacted...
...methodically set to work fuzzing up his story of how he delivered records of France's most secret Defense Committee meetings to the Communists. His original story had been that he got them from Roger Labrusse, a Defense Committee official. Labrusse in turn had got them from Rene Turpin, personal secretary to Jean Mons, head of the Defense Committee's permanent secretariat. "I did not pay them a franc," boasted Baranés. "They acted out of ideological sympathy for Communism...
...Attlee party's attendant British newsmen cabled their first overall impressions of Red China. Wrote Rene MacColl of the Daily Express: "The most solemn experience I have had was the visit to Peking jail. On the surface, it looked more like a well-run factory than a prison. But when you stopped to watch the prisoners at their work, you realized that they were going about their tasks with a dedicated ferocity of purpose and speed . . . Nearly all of them were under sentence of death, and only by making good on output for two long, sickening years could they...
...himself became De Gaulle's Minister of National Economy, and worked out an austerity plan for the economic reconstruction of postwar France, including such severe anti-inflation measures as freezing all large bank deposits. But at a Cabinet meeting in January 1945, a majority led by Finance Minister Rene Pleven vigorously objected. After five years of occupation, the French people would not stand for a new period of austerity, they argued. "You see, my dear Mendès," said De Gaulle, "the Minister of Finance and all the experts are against you." "I remember," answered Mendès sadly...
...There's So Little . . ." This week on the farm of Rene Muzart, the wheat was being harvested under the protection of troops with a Patton tank. When the harvest is finished, the tank and the soldiers will go elsewhere. So the Muzarts are leaving their farm-perhaps forever...