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...billion Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stepped Executive Vice President Frederic W. (for Worral) Ecker, 57, son of former (1929-36) Met President Frederick H. Ecker, 85, now honorary chairman. A Harvardman ('18), poker-faced (and poker-playing) Frederic Ecker won a D.S.C. and Croix de guerre as a World War I infantry lieutenant, tried his hand briefly in the securities business before following in his father's footsteps at Metropolitan...
...amnesty satisfied the Alsatians, who raised the tricolors they had lowered to half-staff in protest. But it simply touched off a fresh storm to the south, in the new village of Oradour. The villagers lowered their tricolor, removed from its place of honor the Croix de Guerre awarded by the government to mark Oradour's ordeal, dispatched an irate protest to President Vincent Auriol: "Oradour, which until now recalled Nazi brutality, will in the future be remembered as a symbol of unpunished crime...
Education: University of Paris, degrees in arts and law. Decorations: Croix de guerre for gallantry in World War I; a commander of the Legion of Honor. Private Life: Married to Denise-Henriette Bloch. His only son Antoine, a parachutist, was killed in World War II; a daughter Lise is married to a silk dealer. Political Career: Headed French armament mission to London 1939. Returning to France after the 1940 collapse, he was denied all posts under Petain's anti-Semitic laws; escaped to North Africa in 1943, where he joined the Free French in Algiers. After the liberation...
...back a month later as a company commander in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensive. He was wounded again. He came home a captain, wearing the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de guerre and two silver stars-and found to his horror that he could not stay in the service as a regular without a thorough knowledge of naval artillery...
...managed to get away) and became Chaplain General of the Resistance. At the liberation of Paris, while German snipers were still firing inside the Cathedral of Notre Dame, he welcomed General de Gaulle into the church for a service of Thanksgiving. His wartime heroism was rewarded with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor...