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...months after the armistice of Compiegne, the leaders of the Third Republic stood in the dock at Riom to answer war-guilt charges dreamed up by Adolf Hitler. Instead they attacked the Vichy regime, praised General Charles de Gaulle. Delicate, scholarly, 70-year-old onetime Premier Léon Blum raised his grey head proudly and accused his accusers of rank mockery. Cried onetime Premier Edouard Daladier: "We shall make it clear where treason lurked and by whom France was betrayed...
Last week, no longer protected by the shadow of the once-great Code Napoléon, Blum and Daladier were en route to Germany. Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel and General Gustave Gamelin had already joined General Maxime Weygand in Berlin, where a German "people's court"* awaited them...
Formed to discuss educational problems at Harvard, the committee on Curriculum and Tenure had been planning to hold meetings through the fall on the subject of a wartime curriculum, but the prospect of a definitive stand from Washington caused the committee chairmen, John M. Blum '43, and Hugh M. Hyde '44, to ask for a suspension of its activities...
Oliver E. Allen '43, John M. Blum '43, Bruce Barton, Jr. '43, George M. Burditt, Jr. '44, George R. Clay '43, Dan R. Fenn, Jr. '44, Donald Forie '43, Hugh M. Hyde '44, Myron S. Kaufmann '43, Robert S. Kieve '43, Thomas S. Kuhn '44, Eric Larrahee '43, J. Robert Moskin '44, David E. Pince '43, J. Louis R. Pollak '44, Dana Reed '43, George A. Sexton, Jr. '44, J. Eiden Sawhill '43, Harold W. Smith '44, Adam Yarmelinsky...
Author Thurber sought refuge in France just before the downfall. (He made his first mistake by giving "a book on government by M. Léon Blum [former Socialist Premier now imprisoned at Portalet Fortress in the Pyrenees] ... to a French steward on the Ile de France, who turned out to be a Royalist.") He also made the mistake of getting a phrase book to use in France. "Each page has a list of English expressions [with] French translations . . . alongside." Author Thurber learned to say: "I have left my glasses (my watch) (a ring) in the lavatory." In moments...