Word: collaborationist
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Pianist Cortot, who had served Vichy as secretary for music and was forbidden to play for two years after the liberation, raised a noise by making his postwar debut. Cortot played the piano and the audience made the noise. The orchestra refused to accompany him, walked off stage. "Collaborationist!" yelled some of the audience. "Vive Cortot!" shouted others. Competing choruses of praise and damnation drowned out the music. Cortot grimly stuck to his keyboard, kept playing through the hubbub, finally won silence. At concert's end: an ovation...
Before the war they split. Cortot, a collaborationist, became Vichy's secretary for music. Casals, a fiery Spanish Loyalist, hid out in France during the war, performed at Loyalist benefits. Now 70, he has announced that he will never play publicly again until Spain is liberated from Franco. Jacques Thibaud, less politically minded than either, gave concerts in Vichyfrance, but also performed clandestinely in Switzerland and Spain. In France, aging Jacques Thibaud is regarded with somewhat the same mixture of admiration and affection that U.S. audiences feel for Thibaud's close friend, Fritz Kreisler...
Jules Remains, marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), was initiated into the august French Academy. He wore the traditional brocaded, green dress suit and the dress sword, but he skipped the traditional speech praising his predecessor. Predecessor Abel Bonnard had been kicked out of the Academy as a collaborationist...
...François had joined a group of Left Bank surrealists. He was tall and thin; his friends said he had the face of a "perverse angel." He wrote poems which nobody understood. He lived by stealing. After the German invasion, François' father, who had turned collaborationist in order to save his business, persuaded his son to write for a Nazi publishing enterprise at 10,000 francs a month. After eight months, François quit...
This will do Jan Bata himself little good. In the records of the new Czech Government he is listed as a collaborationist, mainly because he kept his factories running during the war and did not support the Czech Government in exile. So he will probably not be paid for his 40% interest in Bata. There are still Bata factories in England and Canada, controlled by Bata's kin. But he claims that the U.S. plant which he built at Belkamp, Md. and which was operated by the Alien Property Custodian during the war no longer belongs to him (just...