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André Chéradame is a stubby, sturdy Norman scholar, now going on 70, who for half a century has been absorbed by the subject of Pan-Germanism. Since 1901, in books, pamphlets, articles and speeches, he has preached variations of his single sermon to a world that was usually bored. The sermon: In 1895 Germany set out to conquer Europe, and then the world, in a campaign which was to be completed...
Last week André Chéradame was in the U.S. to seek results from his latest book, Defense of the Americas.* The book was news, not so much for the ingenious plan of defense which Author Chéradame offered to the Americas, but for the sense it made of the political plays of Europe from 1895 to this week's invasion of Russia...
...Ch. My Own Brucie, coal-black cocker spaniel owned by Herman E. Mellenthin of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: the Westminster Kennel Club best-in-show, crowning glory in a dog's life; for the second year in a row; outshining 2,547 rivals; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. With rosettes aplenty, five-year-old Brucie will show no more, "except where he never has been shown before." >Dimpled Mary Rose Thacker, 18, of Winnipeg: the biennial North American ladies' figure skating championship; for the second successive time; by a wide margin over Toronto's Eleanor...
...Vice Premier Laval, went Germany's Ambassador to France Otto Abetz. Young Otto Abetz had been charged by Adolf Hitler with removing from the Vichy Government any threats to the continued "collaboration" of France and Germany. In Vichy he saw Marshal Pétain, then hurried to nearby Châteldon to hear Laval's story of his break with Pétain. At Abetz' insistence, Chief of State Pétain received Citizen Laval and listened to his justification of the conduct, still unrevealed, which led to his dismissal. At Abetz' insistence, Chief of State...
Most popular Brazilian musical form is the chôro (pronounced shoro}, in which one instrument in an ensemble improvises on a theme, in about the same way that a U. S. jazz musician "takes a chorus" for a solo ride. Villa-Lobos has composed 14 choros, ranging from a guitar solo to a magnificent, jungle-rhythmed piece, Choros No. 10, for chorus and orchestra...