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Generalissimo Francisco Franco had a suggestion: France should let its one-time ambassador to Spain, Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, now under a life sentence for treason, come to live in Spain and enjoy "the hospitality of our wonderful Mediterranean climate, where, until passions die down, he could spend the last years of his life, loved and respected." In Paris, a few World War I veterans, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun, remembered their old hero, set up a chant of "Set Pétain free" before police could silence them...
Gropius wrote Henri Matisse in Paris and asked him if he had heard anything from Miro. Matisse answered that he would look for his follow artist, and then nothing more was heard from Matisse...
...Swiss philosopher Attlee quoted was Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-81), professor of esthetics and philosophy at Geneva, whose one book, Amiel's Journal, influenced many 19th Century British liberals. Amiel was more "neutral" than Attlee's quotation indicated. Elsewhere in his Journal Amiel had this to say about Americans: "They must win gold, predominance, power; crush rivals, subdue nature. They have their heart set on the means and never...think of the end...They are eager, restless, positive, because they are superficial. To what end all this stir, noise, greed, struggle...
...Brussels, Ike bypassed the Belgian Air Force honor guard waiting at the Brussels airport, hurried to his car and hurried into the city. He quickly conferred with civil and defense chiefs, talked to Party Leaders Paul-Henri Spaak (Socialist) and Roger Motz (Liberal), learned that Belgium proposed to: 1) increase her strength in Germany from one to three divisions by the year's end, 2) double the draft period from 12 to 24 months...
Married. Deanna Durbin, 29, onetime cinema songbird (100 Men and a Girl); and Charles Henri David, 44, French movie director; she for the third time, he for the second; in Sarreguemines, France...