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Into Paris trooped elegant Alfred Duff Cooper and his exactress wife, Lady Diana, heading a safari of secretaries, clerks and baggage-bearers. They took one look at the Embassy on the rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. The high-ceilinged building had been turned into a warehouse by British subjects, who stored so much furniture in it that the floors will have to be re-enforced before the building can be used again. The Ambassador and his lady moved into a suite at the Hotel Barclay...
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, in his old attic studio in Paris' rue Saint Augustin, surrounded by pictures of blue women with square feet, declared that he had not only refused to collaborate with the Germans, said: "I even annoyed them." Said he: "They forbade my works to be shown because Hitler named me . . . decadent. But simple Nazi soldiers used to visit me. When they left I presented them with a souvenir postcard of my painting Guernica...
...struggle and liberation, a nation had been reborn. In Paris last week a much more difficult feat of political obstetrics was taking place-a government for the reborn nation was trying to come to life. Charles de Gaulle had settled down in the old War Ministry on the rue St. Dominique...
...most heartwarming homecoming of the week was reported by Helen Kirkpatrick of the Chicago Daily News, which also cheered homesick U.S. tourists and expatriates before the war with a Paris edition in English. Of her discoveries at 21 rue de la Paix, she wrote...
...found the same situation at the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mowrer, 146 rue de l'Université, where their maid had covered the furniture, hidden the radio and fought off those who had attempted to requisition it. Although the maid had not been paid since 1940, she had come in twice a week to keep the place clean...