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...story in which a wife knows how to stay out of the way when her husband's mistress turns up. Aragon seems as slickly at home in this tradition as he is in the job he took over last month: the editorship of the Paris Communist daily Ce Soir. Says Lover Aurélien's aged friend and adviser: "My boy, I've only one piece of advice to give you and it's advice you must take to heart. The women you sleep with don't matter-what's damnable is the women...
Last week a reporter of the Paris newspaper France-Soir visited the expropriated Monsieur Garden, found him in shirtsleeves in a shabby little house. Said the lean old man: "The Tremolin coal trust, c'est moil" Then Gardon led the reporter to his backyard to see the mine fields. "There it is," said Gardon. "I see nothing," replied the puzzled reporter. "Voila, behind the bush...
...Soir, Paris Communist paper, was red with anger. In a luxurious villa at Pau in sight of the snow-bright Pyrenees, Sidi Mohamed Al Mounsaf was "lazily stretched out on a divan, his hands folded across his stomach." The "notorious collaborator"-exiled by the Allies for winking his pouchy eyes at the Axis (TIME, May 24, 1943)-enjoyed full liberty, was fawned upon by a score of wives, a large retinue including a court jester. To cap it all, he was campaigning for reinstatement as Bey of Tunis...
That was last July. A few weeks later, Ce Soir briskly backtracked: "The story was politically unjust . . . offensive to [a] high personality [living] in deportation and forced residence. The necessary remonstrances have been sent to our correspondent. Our rule on Ce Soir is professional conscience . . . respect for the truth." This routine Bolshevik backflip meant merely that Ce Soir's editors had been "officially informed" of what they should have known all along: Tunisia's Communist Party, culled from 110,000 French and 95,000 Italian residents, had rekindled among 2,300,000 Moslems and Bedouins the fires...
...this the prosecution responded by producing Pétain's letter notifying Berlin of the appointment of Flandin-" . . . whose name alone will appear to be a guarantee of sincerity." Also submitted as damning evidence were newspaper articles written by Flandin during the occupation, among them a Paris Soir piece headlined: M. FLANDIN DECLARES FRANCE WAS PUSHED INTO WAR BY THE ENGLISH, PLUTOCRATS, JEWS AND MASONS...