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This was Adolf Hitler's first visit to the Forest of Compiégne, where Louis XVI received Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon received Marie-Louise, where 510 years ago Joan of Arc surrendered to the Duke of Burgundy and 22 years ago a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Before Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers...
Last week the Skidroad was fit to bust with pride over Sexton Fitzgerald. For his 32 years of shy and selfless service, the Pope himself had sent him a gold medal-the Benemerenti medal originated in 1832 by Gregory XVI to reward distinguished civil and military service for the faith...
...months during 1789, the so-called "honeymoon of the Revolution," focussing interest on the adventures of a Marseilles citizen army. Without an excessive amount of flag-waving, it waxes enthusiastic over the fraternal movement, as it colorfully depicts the march to Paris and the storming of the Tuileries. Louis XVI is portrayed not as a Hollywood caricature of an egotistical sot, but as the gourmandish monarch he was, with his glimmerings of intelligence and his fatal irresolution in times of crisis. Compact and clear-cut, the entire narrative is spiced with Gallic humor and fragments of eighteenth-century music...
...Louis XVI's Successors. Meantime, before a military court, the trial of 44 Communist ex-Deputies went into its second week. Charged with attempting to carry on "treacherous" activities by changing their Party's name after war's outbreak, the 44 continued to complain that their rights as French citizens were being violated because their trial was in camera. Even Louis XVI got a public trial, they pointed out. The official French attitude was that if all 44 legislators were permitted to sound off in public, the case would not end before 1941. In prospect for them...
...division of skilled Alpine Chasseurs and two other Allied divisions. But there was a hitch. The only practical way for Allied troops to get to Finland lies through Norway and Sweden. M. Tanner returned to Stockholm and applied for free passage. It was a perfectly legal request: Article XVI of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to which Sweden. Norway and Finland belong, specifically provides for such help for a victim of aggression...