Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrath with which all France denounced what Frenchmen considered an outlandish Italian campaign suggested that 40,000,000 Frenchmen, almost hopelessly torn between Left and Right on internal questions, could really unite again when it came to defending La Patrie. Between Left, Right and Centre there is no outstanding difference of opinion about one thing-the incomparable French Army...
Squarejawed, square-shouldered Premier Edouard Daladier is always chiefly interested in defense and so are many other Frenchmen. Last week the Premier was under pressures amounting to attack on the French internal and also on the French external front. He resolutely prepared his defenses, and in doing so was assisted by the British Prime Minister in person, the first working trip to Paris by an incumbent of No. 10 Downing Street since the days of James Ramsay MacDonald, the Laborite apostle of the League who generally only sped through Paris on his way out to Geneva or home...
...danger of general action which, pushed to the limit, would compromise the security of the nation." On the other hand, it asked the State (i. e., Decree-Potent Daladier) to "seek all means of calming the nation's emotions and of appeasing the social conflict." To most Frenchmen the voice of those who have fought and might have died for France is vox populi-and Daladier is of course a World War veteran...
...Pach (TIME, Nov. 1, 1937). Last week's visitors saw his superb painting of the great violinist, Paganini; studies for some of his famous murals; colorful pictures of the Moroccan subjects by which he introduced the Exotic to French art-in all, 18 works by an artist whom Frenchmen consider as important in painting as Beethoven was in music...
...howling ribaldry of Sennep's attacks on French Left and Centre politicians has made thousands of Frenchmen think of him as an extreme Rightist. In the past few weeks Cartoonist Sennep has surprised them with an anti-Fascist campaign in the daily Epoque. Last week he avowed: "It's true I've taken more digs at Left politicians but that's because they are so much funnier to draw." Patent-leather smooth, dark, fat, affable J. Sennep's real name is Jean-Jacques Charles Pennes. One brother, General Roger Pennes, is a bigwig...