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Bernanos, schrijver. French novelist and essayist, whose masterpiece is Journal D'un Curé De Campagne (1936, The Diary of a Country Priest). Bernanos was not a priest but he is considered one of the most original Roman Catholic writers of his time. Unlike many contemporary French writers, Bernanos was an active supporter of the rightist Action Française movement and an ardent supporter of the French ...

Participants in the signing of the Polish-Russian agreement on July 30, 1941, are shown here with their hosts in London. They are (l. to r.): Poland's Premier Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, who signed for Poland; England's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill and Russian Ambassador Ivan Maisky. 'To us,' writes Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, 'it was a moral defeat. It was the beginning of the appeasement ...