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...MEDIUM PRICE. Pontiac Chief tain Catalina, 21.10 m.p.g., 51.72 t.m.p.g.; Dodge Coronet 500 V8, 20.90 m.p.g., 50.14 t.m.p.g.; Mercury Montclair Phaeton, 19.15 m.p.g., 47.69 t.m.p.g...
When it comes to putting Frenchmen into the tumbrels of political recrimination, none are more skillful than other Frenchmen. In The Gravediggers of France, in 1944, French Journalist Pertinax (André Géraud) called Paul Reynaud the third gravedigger (after Gamelin and Daladier and before Pétain and Laval). Reynaud now makes an eloquent case for the proposition that, if he helped dig the grave, it was really his political enemies who committed the murder and provided the corpse...
...France's static infantry. Above all, he knew that Hitler was not Kaiser Wilhelm I, "the old gentleman who took Alsace Lorraine from us," but a modern Genghis Khan. He knew that Laval, "the Robert Walpole* of the rabble," was squalid and detestable; that Pétain was a defeatist who had to be "kicked into" his victories in World War I, and in World War II, in the absence of all effective French arms, could only snuffle about the lack of carrier pigeons. But filling the canvas with idiots, crooks and poltroons has the strange effect of diminishing...
Died. Constant Victor André Mornet, 85, Procureur Général of France, prosecutor in the trials of Dutch dancing-girl-turned-spy Mata Hari (1917), Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval (1945); in Nohant-Vic, France. Called by his government to prosecute Pétain, Mornet summed up in a stormy five-hour speech, concluded: "I would not be doing my duty if I did not insist on the capital penalty...
...more natural than might appear. Both men-the devout Catholic De Gaulle, the devout humanist Malraux-were deeply conscious of the need for a new mission for France; both were deeply disillusioned by the powerlessness of the French parliamentarianism which had supinely handed over power to a Pétain, and was now supine before the challenge of liberation. While De Gaulle brooded in the background, Malraux was the most eloquent voice of the Gaullist R.P.F...