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...Paris the dream was epitomized by an Exposition, with cascading fountains, noise, crowds, smells and especially the Eiffel Tower. Ugly no doubt, the Tower was a staggering prodigy of science. When its garland of lights went on at night, Pierre Mercadier murmured: "The Fairy Electricity." Pierre had put on his light-colored bowler and taken his pretty, featherbrained wife to the fair. Paulette thought it was dreadful...
Best measure of the campaign's success were the efforts of the Vaterland and its vassals to neutralize it. From the Eiffel Tower hung a V flag. Nazi propaganda photographers snapped V-stenciled trains in Prague, bored workmen V-painting tenders (see cut). To good Nazis, these Vs of course stood for the unfamiliar word Viktoria...
...photographed from a Stuka diving straight down on it, of freight yards in occupied France torn up by British bombs, of French prisoners slaving at construction projects for the Germans, of French children getting rations from the conquerors, of Hitler gaily touring Paris, visiting the Madeleine, looking at the Eiffel Tower...
Beginning with the forcing of the Maastricht defenses, the cameras follow-in plane, tank and lorry-every characteristic move of the Nazi juggernaut across the Lowlands, over to the sea, down to Paris, up the Eiffel Tower, into the armistice car at Compiègne. Residents of Manhattan's German colony sat chilled and stilled in their seats. With fine photography, which in itself emphasizes (in contrast to Russia's Mannerheim Line) the martial superiority of Teutons over Slavs, the picture shows the German Army's crushing, rhythmic power; patience and proficiency in arms; perfect planning...
...Eiffel Tower is not displaced by the Empire State Building," cried Mme. Schiaparelli early last month, at a Los Angeles Junior League luncheon. Fashioneers were not amused. In Manhattan last fortnight, Mme. Schiaparelli made her farewell speech-on the same day that delayed news came from Paris that Lucien Lelong's "corporative reorganization" of the fashion industry had been completed...