PWT 41 2015

TRANSMISSION 41 CONTENTS :

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Your answers 21

Key of names / calculate your score 22

WEEKLY TRANSMISSION N°41 THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2015

A PICTURE RIDDLE: A GALLERY OF PORTRAITS

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N°41 : A Portrait Gallery

1944

Weekly Transmission 41 1 41th week 2015

1856. Albumen cdv, printed 1860s. ”Consider how much blood youwould have to make for another flag fame! Citizens, for me, the redflag, I am not adopting it, and I'll tell you why I'm against with all thestrength of my patriotism.”


1859. Albumen cdv. "The progress of humanity seems to have cometo a halt, and you with your superior intelligence will know why. Thereason is that the world lacks a nation which possesses true leader-ship...”.


1870. Albumen cdv. “No other statesman of his standing had everbefore shown the same great moderation and sound political senseof the possible and desirable...” (William L. Langer).


1926. Albumen print, 435x320 mm. “Nous sommes débiteurs et vous êtes créanciers. Il sem-ble que ce soit pure affaire de caisse. N'y a-t-il point d'autres considérations à envisager ? …Si les nations n'étaient que des maisons de commerce, ce sont des comptes de banques quirègleraient le sort du monde … Or, c'est le secret de la comédie qu'il ne s'agit ici qued'échéances fictives pour aboutir à l'emprunt, avec de bonnes hypothèques sur nos biens ter-ritoriaux, comme en Turquie … La France n'est pas à vendre, même à ses amis ! “.


1930. Albumen print, 435x320 mm. “Rok temu z garścią małą ludzi, źle uzbrojonychi źle wyposażonych, rozpocząłem wojnę. Cały świat stanął wtedy do boju. “


1931. Silver print, 170x130 mm. "I was never a very orthodox socialist...".


1932. Silver print, 250x205 mm. “She often voiced her goal: to get France outof its rut. She said that Americans had the right idea; they didn't get into a rut...”(The Economist, 25 January 2003).


1936. Silver print, 130x185 mm. ”Dans cette heure qui, pour nous tous, est une heure d’anx-iété tragique, n’ajoutons pas encore cela à notre douleur et à nos craintes. Sachons nous ab-stenir des mots qui blessent, des actes qui lèsent... Je vous dis cela parce que c’est sans doutela dernière fois que je m’adresse à beaucoup d’entre vous et parce qu’il faut pourtant quecela soit dit. Les uns et les autres, même séparés, restons des socialistes”.


1939. Silver print, 170x130 mm. "I will not pretend that, if I had to choose betweencommunism and Nazism, I would choose communism."


1942. Silver print, 240x180 mm. “Trop fier pour l’intrigue, trop fort pour la mé-diocrité, trop ambitieux pour être arriviste, il nourrissait en sa solitude une passionde dominer, longuement durcie par la conscience de sa propre valeur, les trav-erses rencontrées, le mépris qu’il avait des autres...” (Charles de Gaulle).


1943. Silver print, 240x180 mm. “He was afforded a state funeral in Paris, presided over byCardinal Suhard in Notre Dame Cathedral. His coffin was placed, surrounded by French flagsand flowers, in front of the Hotel de Ville, where thousands filed past to mourn him”. (W.)


1954. Silver print, 130x180 mm. “Un accord, cela signifie des concessions, de larges con-cessions, sans aucun doute plus importantes que celles qui auraient été suffisantes naguère.Et l'écart qui séparera les pertes maintenant inéluctables et celles qui auraient suffi voici troisou quatre ans mesurera le prix que nous payerons pour nos erreurs impardonnables...”.


1959. Silver print, 130x90 mm. ”In June 1953, he attended the coronation ofQueen Elizabeth II. Seated next to the elderly Princess Marie Bonaparte, he re-ported having spent much of the ceremony being psychoanalyzed by her.” (W.)


1968. Silver print, 210x150 mm. “a leader in claims for more sexual freedom... hequickly emerged as a public face of the student protests...” (W.).


1968. Silver print, 205x300 mm. "L’héritage n’est pas un bien que l’on possède et que l’ongarde. Mais quelque chose que les héritiers se disputent, et ce qu’ils en font".


1969. Silver print, 300x210 mm. "I will finish three books, if God grants me life."


1979. Silver print, 240x300 mm. ”...the treaty was never ratified by the United States Senate.Its terms were, nonetheless, honored by both sides until it expired” (W.).


1985. Silver print, 176x270 mm. “In 1985, he resigned from the cabinet in due to his oppo-sition to the introduction of the proportional system for the legislative elections”.


1990. Silver print, 275x175 mm. "Given the strategic logic of the time, Iprobably would have acted the same way if I had been a Soviet general. Atthat time, Soviet political and strategic interests were threatened”.


1995. Silver print, 175x230 mm. “Vlad Listyev was arguably the most popular journalist andTV anchor in Russia (he remains well remembered years after his death), and was a key forcein bringing the voice of democracy to Russian television. Listyev first appeared on televisionas one of the hosts of a highly progressive and successful show Vzglyad (Glance or Outlook)in the late 1980s, a satirical program watched weekly by as many as 100 million people...onthe evening of March 1, 1995, when returning from the live broadcast of his evening showChas Pik, Listyev was shot dead on the stairs of his apartment building. Valuables and a largesum in cash that Listyev had on him were left untouched, leading the investigators to concludethat the murder was either a political or business-related assassination. However, despite nu-merous claims made by investigators that the case was close to resolution, neither the gunmen,nor those who ordered the killing, were found... Paul Klebnikov's article "Godfather of theKremlin?" in Forbes accused Boris Berezovsky of ordering the murder. Berezovsky sued themagazine for libel in British court.” (W.).

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Key of names 22 Calculate your score

1856: Alphonse de Lamartine, Paris

1859: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Turin

1870: Bismarck, Ferrières (?)

1926: Georges Clémenceau, Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard

1930: Józef Piłsudski, Near Warsaw

1931: Pierre Laval, Chateldon

1932: Françoise Giroud, Marseilles

1936: Léon Blum, Paris

1939: Winston Churchill, Paris

1942: Philippe Pétain, Orléans

1943: Philippe Henriot, Paris

1954: Pierre Mendès France, Genève

1959: François Miterrand, Paris

1968: Daniel Cohn Bendit, Paris

1968: Alain Krivine, Paris

1969: Charles de Gaulle, Paris

1979: Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev, Vienna

1985: Michel Rocard, Washington

1990: Wojciech Jaruzelski, Warsaw

1995: Boris Yeltsin, Moscow

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