Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss news paper Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung noted that Germans were buying vacuum cleaners, kitchen utensils, lamps, radio sets, suit cases, purses, wallets out of all proportion to their past needs. Economics Minister Dr. Walther Funk publicly complained that people were investing their money in bathtubs. Last week an official anti-hoarding campaign began as stories were circulated of a woman who bought six electric carpet sweepers, of others who collected copper coins, fur coats, oriental rugs...
...Parliament convened last week after the holidays, greying Marcel Cachin, Communist Senator, decided not to risk going to Paris, lay snug at his villa in Brittany, and his only other Communist colleague also stayed home. Barrel-chested, leather-lunged Maurice Thorez, French Communist Party leader, had to keep quiet-he was A.W.O.L. from the Army. In famed Sante Prison sat many of the 72 French Communist Deputies, arrested after the Party was outlawed (TIME, Oct. 23), one by one on charges of this or that "illegal activity." But seven Communist Deputies who were serving in the Army (where their activities...
...Chamber then proceeded to re-elect its regular President (Speaker), popular Edouard Herriot. Once the Soviet Union's most potent friend in France, Speaker Herriot last week denounced Moscow as "a regime seeking to crush the weak," called for maximum French aid to the Finns, brought the Deputies to their feet shouting, "Long live Finland!" The last three Reds said nothing, but it did not appear that they could stay, even if meek. Vice Premier Camille Chautemps introduced a bill to expel every last Red in France from office - from Chamber, Senate, from national, provincial and municipal offices...
Then Great Britain offered its "good offices." Upshot was that last week Marshal Pétain entertained at luncheon Spanish Foreign Minister Juan Beigbeder y Atienza and a French delegation of commercial experts, let it be announced that Spain and France would sign a trade agreement early this week. Strangely enough, Foreign Minister Beigbeder's father was a German, his mother tongue is German and he was once Spanish military attache in Berlin...
Rough as thistle and dour as dominie's broadcloth is the Scottish Presbyterian who last week took over as Great Britain's Minister of Information. No government but Britain's would put direct wartime control of newspapers and newspapermen in the hands of a man who hates newspapers and newspapermen as much as does Sir John Charles Walsham Reith. He is said once to have had a reporter fired for flying an airplane over the Reith house to take pictures. In one of his rare interviews he flatly declared that he never looked at a newspaper...