Word: voix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Humanite: Petain must die-"Pity would be a token of weakness." But others shook their heads over a trial for high treason which had become a trial of high politics. Said Author Georges Bernanos (Plea for Liberty) in Combat: "France is disgusted. . . ." Warned Lille's influential Voix du Nord: "The country remains divided, as it was after the Dreyfus case...
Frenchmen grieved and worried. A Parisian flower-vendor propped a black headline, Roosevelt est mort, against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...
...Voix de France, a bi-monthly French newspaper devoted to a worldwide anti-Vichy movement, started with 30,000 copies: 10,000 divided between subscribers and newsstands; 20,000 free copies to high schools and colleges. Said its opening editorial by Adolphe Demilly (onetime French publisher and foreign correspondent in Africa and Spain...
More philosophical was short, sad-eyed Rabbi Emil William Leipziger, well-loved rabbi of New Orleans' Touro Synagogue, president of the Central Conference, in addressing his brother rabbis at Charle voix: "Remedies for Israel's agony and the world's pain will not come from what we say here nor do here. We may even in our human frailty or under controlled forces do that which deviates from the main stream of the ideal-but right or wrong, in victory or in defeat, in self-fulfillment or in frustration, we will not dissolve our partnership with...