Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form France's biggest political bloc, held 60%. By voting for a strong executive, the electorate showed its support of Provisional President Charles de Gaulle. But this swing seemed also a rebuke to the General, a demand for a speedup of the socialistic reforms drafted by the underground and tacitly approved by his Government in the early days of liberation...
...from My First Painting (1890) to a recent Girl in Oriental Costume. Through most of the German occupation the old master had been sick near Nice; he had painted lying in bed. In 1943 his wife and daughter were tortured by the Gestapo on suspicion (justifiable) of helping the underground, but were finally freed. Matisse's health is still delicate, but he has seldom painted with more youthful boldness and joie de vivre...
Windows on the Future. From the windows of his paneled office, wiry, weathered President Eduard Benes could look across the historic Moldau, beyond the towers and spires of the golden capital, toward the rolling, cherished "Czech lands." For three decades, in the underground, in exile and in this office, he had labored to shape those lands and their people into a state...
Setting the precedent for this policy was the American retention of Admiral Jean Darlan as chief of French Africa. Analyzing this policy in Africa, Irwin Shaw has written "The Assassin," denouncing not only the collaboration with Darlan but the sidestepping of recognition of the underground forces...
...Zanuck and other seasoned Hollywood geniuses have made worse movies. All in all, Paris Underground ought not to lose Miss Bennett any money. If it should, she is unlikely to starve. Currently...