Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each Sunday a gaunt, austere figure with sideburns, long frock coat and tight, narrow trousers leaves his home in Paris' Latin Quarter, crosses the Seine and heads for Père-Lachaise Cemetery. For hours he strolls among the dead marshals, statesmen and courtiers of the dead Napoleonic Empire; he never fails to pause before the tombstone of the Comtesse de Girardin, the greatest beauty of the Little Corporal's court. Jean Auguste Louis Armand Fèvre, by profession a dealer in rare books, by appearance a bourgeois gentleman of Napoleon's day, has chosen to live...
...movie rises to a high level of political drama in its presentation of life under tyranny, and the problems of the revolutionaries. Scenes showing elder statesmen forced to follow the dictator's will, and the dilemma of the underground in deciding whether its ends justify killing innocent people, are presented with great power. But these high points are not frequent enough to make "We Were Strangers" the artistically fine movie it tries to be. The film lacks any real characterizations, concentrating on its plot. This ends in an ironical twist which is not handled smoothly enough to be completely effective...
...democracy, statesmen go on vacation, break a leg, get the flu and even retire or die without creating more than a mild flurry of editorial comments or oratorical farewells. But Communist leaders in their world behind the Iron Curtain fare differently. Because so little information about their lives is allowed to leak out, Red bigwigs can scarcely go away for a country weekend without creating a storm of speculation-on either side of the Curtain-that they have been purged, exiled or demoted in disgrace...
There are not many statesmen left to whom such a thought would occur-much less who would have the zest to put it down. But then, there never have been many remotely like Winston Churchill...
...Western Hemisphere's statesmen, Canada's Louis St. Laurent was one of the first to speak out for a North Atlantic Treaty. Last week, as the pact was about to be signed in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Prime Minister St. Laurent faced the ever-present problem of the democratic leader: would his own Parliament buy the plan which he had helped sell to others...