When Paris Rose ...

"Guns Spluttered before the great closed doors of the Ministry, which were guarded by armed men. In the courtyard inside, men of the F.F.I. mingled with their comrades of the National University Front, with graduates, teachers, professors, civil servants, students and schoolboys. Some of us stood by with loaded guns, while others worked in the office with the heads of the Department, issuing orders against traitors and collaborators, and appointing trustworthy men and women to responsible posts."

Meanwhile, in the United States, six thousand Texan students became involved in the battle of Brains against Business. On November 2, 1944, the university board dismissed without trial the president for his unwelcome views on the poll-tax and land tenure in the South. As a result of the students' demonstration the Southern Association of Colleges appointed a competent committee of "leading southern educators" to investigate the circumstances surrounding the dismissal.