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After the war he played both sides of a Socialist split, formed his own group in Aubervilliers, married the simple, homely daughter of Socialist Leader Dr. Georges Claussat. He has since kept Madame Laval in the background. He began to prosper as a legal fixer, moved to a swank home in Paris, wangled an amnesty law for defeatists through the Chamber, and snuggled up to influential Joseph Caillaux...
...years off & on Author Paul lived on the rue de la Huchette and watched with interest and partisan passion the political schism that split the side street, like the rest of France, into two great hostile camps. But Author Paul's political concern lacks the gusto of his human ribaldry. There is a suggestion that the citizenry of the rue de la Huchette are somehow symbolic of democracy everywhere and that, if they had run things, the Nazis would never have got to Paris. But in view of all that goes before, their pathos...
...this round of debates the negative teams travel with Harvard debating Yale at New Haven, and Yale debating Princeton at Princeton. Last year the three teams split, each winning one and losing one, with the result that there was no champion...
Usually the concentrator is expected to divide his work about evenly between courses in history and in literature. A split of four courses in one department and two in another is about the biggest deviation permitted. History and Literature concentration is not restricted to courses in these fields alone. If a course in the history of philosophy, political theory, science or the fine arts has its subject-matter within the chronoligical and geographical limits of a man's special field, it may be counted for concentration credit...
...Vichy Government, not knowing who will win the war, remains a split personality. Until something decisive happens, Vichy does well to keep its aching head...