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Poulenc's Petites Voix, also sung by Smith, was on the other end of the scale, being witty, whimsical, and sweet. The work is not idiomatic for women's chorus, having been written for the pure tone and peculiar focus of children's voices. With this reservation, the Smith girls' performance was enjoyably light-hearted. With adequate rehearsals, the two Glee Clubs could no doubt sing as well together as they did by themselves...
...knows when to yield gracefully, President Estime told a reporter for the Ligue's hard-hitting newspaper, La Voix des Femmes: "It's all right with me -I am for women's voting." He added significantly (under Haiti's present state of siege Estime holds almost dictatorial powers): "I am perfectly sure that when it comes up before the legislature again, you will win your right to vote...
...Communist Humanite: Petain must die-"Pity would be a token of weakness." But others shook their heads over a trial for high treason which had become a trial of high politics. Said Author Georges Bernanos (Plea for Liberty) in Combat: "France is disgusted. . . ." Warned Lille's influential Voix du Nord: "The country remains divided, as it was after the Dreyfus case...
Frenchmen grieved and worried. A Parisian flower-vendor propped a black headline, Roosevelt est mort, against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...
...Voix de France, a bi-monthly French newspaper devoted to a worldwide anti-Vichy movement, started with 30,000 copies: 10,000 divided between subscribers and newsstands; 20,000 free copies to high schools and colleges. Said its opening editorial by Adolphe Demilly (onetime French publisher and foreign correspondent in Africa and Spain...