Word: barrat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last September the French government arrested Robert Barrat, wartime resistance leader and stringer correspondent for the U.S. Catholic weekly Commonweal. For meeting Algerian leaders and writing sympathetic stories in France Observateur...
...Barrat was charged with a strange offense: "Failure to denounce crimes compromising the security of the state." The French press raised such a protest that Barrat was released provisionally. Three months ago Newsweek's Paris Correspondent Benjamin Bradlee was arrested and ordered to leave France for a similar offense-though he never got closer to the rebels than a taxi ride in Algiers. This time the U.S. embassy protested, and the French suspended the expulsion order...
...week's end, with Claude Gerard still in the general women's prison of Paris, the government let it be known unofficially that she would not be sent to Algeria for trial. It appeared that Newshen Gerard would soon be free on the same provisional basis as Barrat, but the government still plainly held the threat of jail over any correspondent who displeases it in covering the war that...
...climax, the rumble of distant naval guns disperses a Japanese patrol that is closing in on the guerrillas. "MacArthur?" asks Micheline. "He said he'd return," replies Tyrone. Moments later, led by G.I. columns stepping briskly to a Sousa march, the jeep-borne general himself (played by Robert Barrat) rolls into sight to accept their cheers...