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...refused to appear in court, and church bells tolled-all in protest against the verdict of a French military court 350 miles away in Bordeaux. Among the 20 former SS soldiers found guilty that morning of having taken part in the massacre of 642 men, women & children at Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944 (TIME, Jan. 26) were 14 Alsatians. Mostly youths of about 17 at the time of the massacre, all but two had been pressed into German service against their will, their lawyers said...
...inns were crowded, and nearly every farmhouse had guests in the little French town of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges. A special distribution of tobacco rations had brought many farmers in to town. Children, evacuated from Nice and Bordeaux, sat down to the midday meal with weekending parents and relatives. At the Hotel Milord (Léon Milord, Prop.), lamb stew, a specialty of the house, was being served with a light, dry wine. There was excitement in the air and a buzz of conversation around the tables that sunny Saturday in 1944: just four days earlier the Allies...
Charlie Chaplin and family prepared to live in Switzerland for a while. In the mountain village of Corsier-sur-Vevey overlooking Lake Geneva, Chaplin paid $200,000 for a 13-room manor, paid another $93,000 to fill it with rented furniture for six months...
...hard-scraped farms, gnarled vineyards, smudgy little factories; of closefisted small shopkeepers, scuff-knuckled farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid, stucco-faced building in the small town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise where Antoine Pinay was born 61 years ago. His father was a drygoods merchant, his mother a steel-willed matriarch who trusted sternly in God and the franc...
...last rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire; and German Princess Anna Eugenie of Arenberg, 27; in 1) a civil ceremony, and 2) a Roman Catholic ceremony witnessed by the ex-Empress Zita, Archduke Otto, pretender to the throne, and 200 of Europe's rich and royal; in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France...