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Before a Lyons court stood the most famous collaborationist yet brought to trial in France-bearded, brilliant Charles Maurras, political anachronism, polemicist, poet, member of the French Academy, ex-editor of L'Action Française, and a royalist more royalist than France's Pretender, Henri VI (the exiled Henri of Bourbon-Orleans, Count of Paris). The little old man was 76 and stone deaf. All charges and questions had to be given him in writing...
When artists get concerned with politics, they act like other citizens. Last week in Modern Music magazine five famous European composers, now in the U.S., tried to answer a purely political question: what should be done to Europe's collaborationist composers...
Died. Georges Suarez, 48, first-tried, first-convicted prominent French collaborationist, onetime editor of Aujourd'hui (TIME. Nov. 6); before a firing squad; in Paris...
First before the Paris court came Georges Suarez, tough-minded former editor of the collaborationist Aujourd'hui. During the Nazi occupation, his editorials had exhorted Frenchmen to betray members of the Resistance. "Informing used to be a necessity," he said, "now it is an obligation." Suarez also liked to quote French Catholic Writer Joseph de Maistre: "The executioner is the keystone of modern society." Solemnly the Paris judge and his four assistants listened to a reading of Suarez' editorials. Then they passed sentence: for Editor Suarez, execution...
...Athens, whither he had flown from Moscow, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was given the keys of the capital, shown the Acropolis (unharmed by the Germans). While crowds were parading in his honor, an Army officer, who disliked being tagged a collaborationist, shot and killed a member of the EAM. To Britain's Foreign Secretary this punctuation mark was a reminder that Britain's Greek sphere of influence is far from tranquil. The week before, Athens' tumultuous liberation outburst had been cut short when the leftist EAM and the rightist EDES fought it out during the celebration...