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...Georges Mandel, Cesar Campinchi, Guy La Chambre, Pierre Cot, and their direct & indirect collaborators. The men of Vichy apparently still had a little too much conscience to take the scapegoats' lives. The maximum sentence the Riom court may impose is life imprisonment. Although there is no appeal, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, as Chief of State, has reserved for himself the right of pardon...
Last week freak-fenestration's pioneer, Saks Fifth Avenue, was at it again. This time the artist who furnished the in spiration was Henri Rousseau, the little French baggage inspector whose quaint, ingeniously primitive jungle pictures (painted on his Sundays off at the Zoo in the Jardin des Plantes) awed pre-war Paris...
Mindful of historic precedent, old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, Chief of State, showed no eagerness last week to see German troops withdrawn once more from Paris. Instead, he worked overtime at Vichy, provisional capital of unoccupied France, to persuade the German-French Armistice Commission to fulfill its promise, let his Government settle down in Paris under Nazi protection...
...been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...
...last week were: the Countess of Carnarvon, Vienna-born Dancer Tilly Losch; lean, stoop-shouldered Baron Edouard de Rothschild, retired head of the Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from his play The Blue Bird, mourned: "I had my money...