Detroit evening times., 1945-12-02

turned me temper oHeHIS
bodY-He JUST
These arrows remained in place while he
was divoTcing Nine. Decoin and marrying
Daniclle and then, painfully, 10 an accom-
panmCnt OF violent quarrels were removed.
In view Of all this and the TACT that
France was so completely blaCted out dur
ING the period OF German occupation that
the natives scarcely knew what their neigh.
bors were up 10, let alone people they didn't
know persOnally-it is understandable that
Daniee should have become figure Of
mystery-and controversy.
Only a few weeks ago there was great
cOmmotion in the Partisan press over a III
NOR that she was going 10 appear in new
film about the French Resistance Movement |
1T must be a joke" one paper declared.
In fact it's little short OF indecent. The |
German occupation did not weigh heavily I
enough on panielle DarTieux for her 10 win -
the honor Of portraynR heroine Of the Re.
sistarce To come right down 10 il, her bc-
havoI vas suspect
OTIIER papers were quick 70 rise TO her
~ defense, asserting, with just as little evi.
dcncc % 60 on that She had by no means
disqualified herself for the disputed role
Both her detTactors and applpFlSts we're
ticte- ttp-the cucgrfs Of Il quarrel maj had
been going all through the occupation.
IN January 1914, a clandestine French
newspapcr Br Hakem. announced that the
UNDERGROUND had passed death sentence
dgatLzEu uanie1ie Tor having rcPutedy eollaboFated
with thr Nazi forces.
fu--rCrcct remarks she is said 70 have made
while n the company Of her nations uninvted
quests said 10 have resulted in the impriSon-
mcnt 81 one patriot the death Of another.
quite few OF these guests known 10 her,
~MT, 1885 she had worked for a German movie
.mpany and, In her spare time, had taken Berlin
A rebuff she-adminstered during this period
10 Pierre Pietri, soninlaw OF the French Marine
Minister, particularly endeared her TO the Nazis.
Petri could not conclude his visit 10 Berlin
without going out 20 the movie studio for look
At Danielle. He arrived in time TO witness
in which she 10 grab hold Of one Of
group OF street loungers and dance with him.
PctTi galantly offered himself as her partner,
but she replied Thank you. ! prefer my dog"
Whereupon She picked up her dog and Waited
around with il.
But after the fall OF Paris, Danielle was credit
ed with equally indiscreet remarks, aimed AT the
Germans. For example she is supposed 20 have
placed her fair neck in serious jeopardy by
brightly asking Heinrich Himmler:
Tell me, my dear how does it feel 10 order
thousand men beheaded?"
The confusion stirred up by the conflicting
accounts of her conduct fingered on after the
lis doubtful that Danielle, head bowed meckly
under Rubirosa's spell, even heard the angry dis
cusSior, or understood IT, II she did.
Maybe the idea Of his system came 20 the
Scnor through inspiration. Maybe he learned II
through association with couple OF other re-
marhable women, Flor de Orc Flower Of Cold
IruJIIO and that exotic Partisan character, the
singer Nome MoincauN the Sparrow Kid.
An inconspicuous lieutenant in the Dominican
army. porfirio first demonstrated the stuff he's
made Of by winning the hand Of Flor dc orc.
spectacular 17-ycar-od daughter Of his Counuy's
dictator, GenerasSmo Rafael LcoftitiaS Trujilo.
After brief and stormy marriage they were
divorced. Porfirio went TO Berlin charge
daflaires Of the Dominican Embassy and Flower
ut Gold continued TO burgCon She bloomed by
night in hotspotS all over the Western HemiS-
phere; she bloomcd for time by day in Wash
.AgtOn. where ne then serving as Dominican
MISTER Counsellor 10 the L. y.
- Meanwhile she managed to acquire three more
husbands with the latest of whom, the Brazilian