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...Communist Party's No. 2 man. Waldeck Rochet, wearing metal-rimmed spectacles and a funereal suit, warned of the evils of Gaullist capitalism and of the military alliance with "vengeful" West Germany. Senate President Gaston Monnerville, a Negro born in French Guiana, spoke in the name of the Radical Party, argued legalistically that De Gaulle had violated the constitution and that his resignation threat, if he did not get an impressive yes vote, changed the referendum from a "consultation to a summons...
...heady moments last week the Deputies of Gaullist France almost succeeded in recreating the wrangling course of the Fourth Republic. "The representatives of the working class have been arbitrarily reduced," bawled Communist Waldeck Rochet. "We are only ten Deputies for 4,000,000 voters." From somewhere in the rear of the great half-shell that houses the National Assembly, a voice shouted back: "That's ten too many." A right-wing Deputy's ironic reference to "how times have changed" brought Premier Michel Debre himself to his feet. "One thing has not changed," roared the testy Debre...
...Elenas. Countess Rosie Waldeck once said: "Any $50-a-week American publicity man could have saved Lupescu all along." Carol hired a considerably more expensive publicity man (Russell Birdwell; fee: $35,000) to get them admitted to the U.S., but he failed. The couple went to Mexico City, where they lived quietly in the dignified old suburb of Coyoacan. Invitations to their small, candlelit parties were sought eagerly. Later they went to Brazil, where they stayed at Rio's Copacabana Palace...
...Occupied France, the Germans had a dapper new high executioner, Prince Josias Waldeck-Pyrmont, 45, whose early enthusiasm for Naziism might have been connected with the failure of his inherited sugar-beet and seltzer-water interests to yield him much money. The Prince became one of the Gestapo's chief pre-war agents in France, and his polished manners persuaded many uncouth Nazis not to scratch their heads with their forks. One of his first acts last week was a decree that hereafter French hostages would be carried on German troop trains, to discourage sabotage...
...Coler. She lived at the Athene Palace, but never gave people more than a glimpse as she whisked across the lobby or drove down the Calea Victoriei in her "long grey Mercedes." Rumor said that she was Himmler's sister and a modern Mata Hari. Says the Countess Waldeck: "Mata Hari and her sisters were dumbbells in an era when bare skin was supposed to make generals lose their heads. . . . [Frau von Coler] was not Hitler's spy, but a Hitler propagandist. . . . And to make friends and influence people," adds the Countess authoritatively, "[is] a propagandist...