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...Paris, the French Academy elected Marshal Alphonse Juin, 63-year-old commander of NATO's Central European land forces, to take the seat left vacant by the death of Author Jean Tharaud...
Duhamel's colleagues put their cocked hats together, chose instead five Old Guardists-Baron Ernest Seillière, philosopher; Jean Tharaud, novelist; René Grousset, orientalist; Octave Aubry, historian; Robert d'Harcourt, specialist on Germany. Duhamel forthwith resigned. "But why?" chided his late associates. Duhamel's favorites, they said, did not want to be elected anyway...
...expansive was the mood of the Premier after the warmth of his African receptions that he chose to ignore the latest manifestation of Italian ill will. Special Correspondent Jérôme Tharaud of the Paris-Soir arrived at Genoa by plane en route to Djibouti. Even though he had an Italian visa, the Fascist police interrupted his voyage, escorted him back to the French frontier. Reason: Italy claimed M. Tharaud had written articles uncomplimentary to Italian soldiers in Spain...
Asked in Algiers if he planned reprisals against Italian newspaper men in France for the Tharaud expulsion, M. Daladier cracked back: "France is a free country. There will be no reprisals. I know how unhappy they [Italian journalists] would be back in Italy...
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