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...familiar faces crossed the scene. Crowds heard again from Edouard Daladier, France's agent at Munich, and Paul Reynaud, Premier when France fell. Aged (83) but intrepid Edouard Herriot got from meeting to meeting in his wheelchair. Bodyguards propped ailing Communist Chief Maurice Thorez before microphones to breathe a few words on behalf of Red candidates...
...sketchbook was found with Marc's body, and in the sketchbook were 35 exquisite drawings no bigger than his hand. The drawings were sent to Marc's widow, who kept them until her death last year. Last week, in Munich's Graphische Sammlung, they were shown publicly for the first time...
...Wrote Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Nothing about them suggests the milieu in which they were born ... in the midst of war and destruction Franz Marc's gaze turned inward . . . from crystalline lines he lets the Birth of a Cicada come into being. Animals appear: deer, horses . . . and the feather-light body of a swallow . . . Already far away from presenting the material, the visible, the drawings try to grasp a spiritual reality and make the objects transparent...
...laying down the Labor line with undisputed authority. Before his leadership was a year old, he firmly turned the party from Lansbury's doctrinaire pacifism (he himself was an infantry major at Gallipoli in World War I). He grimly warned Conservatives celebrating "peace in our time" that Munich was "one of the greatest defeats that this country and France have ever sustained." Though leader of a movement traditionally sympathetic to Russia and suspicious of the U.S. Attlee ranged his nation alongside the U.S. in the cold war, in NATO and in Korea...
...embattled and embittered Israelis, Eden's proposal was proof positive that the British Foreign Office would like to carve up their country into tidbits for the Arab states. The most overworked word in Israel last week was "Munich," and the most popular slogan "We have no Benes for Britain." Appearing in Parliament in khaki battle dress, Premier David Ben-Gurion rasped out against "dismemberment of Israel [and] a grant of reward to the "Arab aggressors of 1948 . . . Israel will not yield an inch." The defiant speech caught the spirit of the streets: the mood seemed to be that Israel...