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Pierre Pucheu's friends hurled back the accusations. They called the trial a Communist plot, decried the lack of documentary facts. General Henri Giraud raised his high, thin voice in a plea that judgment be postponed until France was free again. Gaullists testified to Pierre Pucheu's change of heart toward the Allies just before the landing in North Africa; to support their point they cited documents from General de Gaulle's office...
...Crown Is Mine." "Melpomene and Thalia have been surpassed," cried the Romantics when Dumas' play Henri III was first presented. Pandemonium broke loose. The audience "stood up, as if seized with madness." "The crown is mine," cried Dumas, and bought himself chromatic waistcoats and a pince-nez dangling from a black ribbon...
...followed by Dumas' Anthony, a more sensational success than Henri III. Paris was ravished by Anthony's closing speech: "She resisted me. I have assassinated...
...Alternatives. London and Washington seemed to have three choices: 1) recognition of the Algiers government now or soon after France is invaded; 2) support in one way or another of Marshal Henri Pétain; or 3) an attempt to postpone the whole issue, deal with France during the invasion interim as a military area. The overwhelming testimony of Frenchmen in France and out was that either alternative to recognition of Algiers would lead to bloody disaster: Frenchmen slaying Frenchmen, bitter hatred between Frenchmen and their "liberators...
...without a hearing, was the magazine View, slick 75?quarterly devoted almost entirely to art with a capital A. The objected-to material: reproductions of 1) surrealist nudes by Leon Kelley, 2) Picasso's Le Minotaure (in a Manhattan gallery's advertisement). Poet-Editor Charles Henri Ford stood up to fight...