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...Barricades trial" ended last week in Paris with 13 acquittals. Of the 19 charged with "attacking the security of the state" during the January 1960 anti-De Gaulle uprising in Algiers, only six were found guilty-and all six had already fled to safety in exile. The stiffest in absentia sentences were handed out to the co-leaders of the uprising: death was decreed for burly Barkeeper Joseph Ortiz, chief of the terrorist Front National Français, and ten years' imprisonment for bearded, handsome Pierre Lagaillarde, the ex-paratrooper and student hero at the University of Algiers...
...Jeanson was tried for treason this fall, in the same military tribunal where Capt. Dreyfus was sentenced as a traitor in 1894. The defense claimed, "When a people resists oppression, it is entitled to every respect... and all the help one can give it." Jeanson, however, was sentenced in absentia to a prison term of ten years...
...academic. University officials stayed silent on the subject last week, but word leaked out that Porter, on the eve of his 67th birthday next month, will get an honorary degree (best guess: Doctor of Music) at his apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. Reason for the honor in absentia: Tunesmith Porter, injured badly in a 1937 spill from a horse, had his right leg amputated two years ago, is too frail to under go the ceremonies in New Haven. At week's end, Yaleman Porter got an accolade at the Metropolitan Opera House. A dozen composers and other...
...Express cartoon was one of the lowest journalistic blows of the year; historic fact is that it was Pierre Laval's government which condemned De Gaulle to death in absentia after the fall of France in 1940, because of his refusal to collaborate with the Nazis. But low as it was, the cartoon was only a little lower than the run-of-the-mill abuse that London's Fleet Street was directing last week at De Gaulle and Adenauer...
Despite his willingness to let bygones be bygones, De Gaulle had not forgotten that Vichy had once sentenced him to death in absentia. His tolerance clearly did not yet extend to paying an ex-collaborator public honor...