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...Reception Center) in Paris' Quartier de l'Europe. But soon small raiding forces, guided by individual "reconnaissance units" of ex-prisoners, peeled off to obtain by "peaceful infiltration" of food and clothing stores the necessities promised (but still unprovided) by the Government. Minister of Prisoners & Deportees Henri Frenay and Food Minister Paul Ramadier had good intentions but lacked supplies...
Digging In. As important as the statement on colonies was President Truman's action toward France. To the White House from San Francisco came youthful French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and French Ambassador Henri Bonnet. After 30 minutes they left beaming...
Marriage Revealed. Léon Blum, 73, France's coldly intellectual Socialist ex-Premier; and Jeanne Levilliers Torres Reichenbach, fiftyish, onetime wife of brainy Gaullist Lawyer Henri Torres ; both for the third time; during Blum's four-year imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp...
...Salzburg rushed a Cabinet deputation, joined by Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, breathless from his dash home from the San Francisco Conference. Leopold's brother, the Regent Prince Charles, also went along. Spaak urged Fabian tactics: the Socialists wanted Leopold to abdicate, the Liberals wanted him to rule-might it not be better for the King to prolong his exile just a little longer until Belgians could make up their minds...
...silence to put the old man under arrest. A Swiss Guard of Honor presented arms. But French troops presented reversed arms (rifle butts upward), a gesture of dishonor. The old Marshal doffed his hat, offered to shake hands with General Koenig. The General stiffly declined. Quietly, in the twilight, Henri Petain boarded a special train for Paris...