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Among the lesser known prospects for the pace setting seat are A. G. Bullock '31, N. E. Long '32, and C. L. Dreyfus '31. Captain L. W. Dickey '30 appears at No. 7 in one of the eights with A. N. Webster '31, one of the best oars in last year's Jayvee eight, and M. M. Johnson '31, No. 5 of the 1929 first crew, rowing behind him at six and five respectively. They will be boated as follows...
Enemies dragged the name of Clemenceau into the Panama scandals of the '90s. Though falsely accused he lost his seat in parliament, seemed ruined. But another scandal?the Dreyfus case?made him a hero. As editor of L'Aurore he wrote the famed caption "J'Accuse!" above the most potent of many articles by Emile Zola which eventually freed Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus from "Devil Island," where an anti-Semite French government had sent him to rot. The fight to free Dreyfus took six of Clemenceau's and Zola's best years. Last week the grateful captain stumped around...
Other members of the committee, who are Harvard graduates, are F. R. Bangs '91 and Carl Dreyfus...
...last week to English Jews about a Viennese Jew who wanted Jewry to return and live in Palestine. The occasion was a London meeting to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of political Zionism. It was Dr. Herzl who, while reporting the famed Dreyfus affair (1894) for the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, found his attention focused on antiSemitism, his Jewish consciousness aroused.* Two years later, aged 36, he published The Jewish State, a speedily famed pamphlet which, with secular, economic emphasis, advocated Jewish national reunion. Followed congresses, interviews with world rulers, potent propagandizing...
...German espionage was rife in the French Army. To obtain a scapegoat and to cater to anti-Semitic factions, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, able Jew, was accused by the high command, tried, convicted, sent to Devil's Island. The question shook Europe. After five years the Dreyfusards won. Capt. Dreyfus was retried, found guilty "with extenuating circumstances," pardoned by the President. In 1906 he was formally declared innocent. He fought for France in the War, gained the rank of colonel, still lives in Paris...