Paris After the Liberation_ 1944 - 1949 - Antony Beevor [226]
* Gouin’s government had not only set about reorganizing the intelligence service as the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionage. It had also put an end to the Gaullist proconsuls from the Liberation, the Commissaires de la République.
* One could hardly blame Koestler for being pleased at such figures, especially since he had heard that ‘the French Communist Party had orders to buy up every single copy of Le Zéro et l’infini immediately’, so in this way he was being ‘enriched indefinitely from Communist Party funds’.
* Félix Gouin sued Farge for the allegations in his book Le Pain de la corruption, but lost the case in March 1948, a setback which finished off any lingering political ambitions.
* Joanovici was a Bessarabian Jew who had come to France in 1925, where he built up a successful scrap-metal business. During Depreux’s investigations, Joanovici was arrested, but then released. He fled to the American zone of Germany in 1947. He was finally put on trial in 1949, condemned to five years in prison and fined 600,000 francs.
* Aimé and Marguerite Maeght had made their first lucrative deals in the art world by bartering food for paintings during the Occupation (Marguerite’s parents were in the grocery business). In this way, they were able to acquire a number of works by Bonnard and Matisse.
* Even though Caffery revealed to Bevin and Duff Cooper that France would almost certainly not receive economic aid if Communists were allowed to become ministers again, there is absolutely no evidence to support the assertion that Ramadier had been blackmailed in the spring by the US government into expelling them from his administration.
* Wages had risen by 17 per cent while prices had increased on average by 51 per cent.
* The French were the most successful in their endeavours. Jean Monnet persuaded David Bruce that the government should be allowed to divert Marshall Plan funds into industrial regeneration.
* Representatives of the New York school had first exhibited in the Galerie du Luxembourg in 1947, but Jackson Pollock’s first show in Paris, organized by the art critic Michel Tapié, took place only in 1951.
* The newspaper Combat on 12 May, following ‘the night of the barricades’, warned that Paris would become ‘Budapest-sur-Seine’.
* The final digits of the NARA document reference give the date of receipt by month, day and year: thus dossier no. 851.00/12-448, was received on December 4,1948.
Index
Abetz, Otto, 34, 64, 85, 133, 135, 137, 143, 156
Académie Française, 137, 173, 199, 373
Acheson, Dean, 228, 276, 285, 356, 357–8, 359
Action, 360
Action Française, 137
Airaud, Arthur, 81
Alcan, Louise, 146
Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories (AMGOT), 29, 36
Alphand, Hervé, 101, 114, 119, 120, 215–16, 245, 288, 289, 322
and Marshall Plan, 286
Alsop, Susan Mary see Patten, Mrs William
Altman, Georges, 334
Amado, Jorge, 336
Amery, John, 66
Amery, Leo, 66
Amouroux, Henri, 87
Anouilh, Jean, 140, 179, 184
Antelme, Robert, 146, 148
Aragon, Louis, 18, 111, 138, 141, 142–3, 152, 158, 177, 183–4, 221, 332, 373, 376–8, 388
Argenlieu, Admiral Thierry d’, 54, 238, 279, 307
Arletty (Léonie Bathiat), 85, 133–4, 136, 365, 380
Armée Secrète, 25, 28
Aron, Raymond, 59
and Les Temps modernes, 178, 248, 323, 329–30, 344
Artaud, Antonin, 175
Arzt, Richard, 151
Association France-URSS, 355, 382
Astier de la Vigerie, Baron Emmanuel d’, 21, 339
Astier de la Vigerie, General Baron François, 21
Astier de la Vigerie, Baron Henri, 21
Astruc, AlexAndré, 140, 315, 318
Attlee, Rt. Hon. Clement, 182
and Marshall Plan, 287
Audiberti, Jacques, 312
Auriol, President Vincent, 255, 274, 283, 298, 306, 359
Auzello, Claude,