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...totalitarianism harked back fondly to the ancien regime. It was monarchical, clerical, aristocratic. The Marshal wanted to expunge the memory of the French Revolution. But while he felt that French totalitarianism depended largely on the success of Nazi totalitarianism, he did not want his neofeudal France to be a neo-vassal state of Germany's. He kept making this clear to Germany with his creaking stubbornness about the sanctity of the French Fleet and the African colonies...
...fled into the Hotel du Caveau. His name was Pierre Vautier. It turned out that he had defied his father by quitting St. Cyr (the French West Point) and taking a job in an art gallery. "It was a small gallery that specialized in ultramodern paintings of the neo-Cubistic school, the sight or mention of which had, on many occasions, nearly proven disastrous to the father's brittle arteries. Vautier the Elder's aversion to the gallery and its wares had been heightened by the indisputable fact that practically all of the other employes, the owner, most...
...London, Sir Arnold Trevor Bax, 58, was appointed Master of the King's Musick, the 21st in an unbroken line since Charles II re-established the post in 1660. Famed as a poetic Neo-Celt composer, Sir Arnold has. never been obliged to earn his living, has never held any office before. His new job, the musical equivalent of Poet Laureate, has been a sinecure since Edward VII abolished State concerts...
...practical realism, to that mixture of tradition and progress which the Prime Minister gave as his political philosophy eighteen months ago. There was a hope at that time that the injection of Mr. Churchill's robust practical sense would turn the Conservative Party away from the Brummagem neo-feudalism of its recent years to the Disraelian tradition of constructive popular and progressive realism, and make it a worthy member of a national partnership. But it is not Mr. Churchill that has captured the Conservative machine; it would appear to be the Conservative machine that has captured Mr. Churchill...
...Roosevelt Administration has kept undeviatingly to the Mellon-sponsored plan. By 1936 L'Enfant's Mall was finished, though the Major's Gallic eyes would have popped at the huge neo-Grecian temples battlementing its northern length. Business houses, even churches near certain Federal areas now conform to the plan...