Word: dreyfusism
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...finer points of his late thieving trade? Well, so had many another expected, and moreover struggled well on his way to freedom when manhunters tracked him down, and goaded him back to the solitary confinement, disease and starvation of Devil's Island (famed for the incarceration of Dreyfus...
Died. Valli Valli (real name Kunst), 45, musical comedy comedienne, wife of Producer Louis Dreyfus; in Hampstead, England, after a long illness. Her last appearance in the U. S. was in "Miss Millions...
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...Dreyfus Case rapidly developed into a struggle between those who were for and those who were against the army. Finally a combination of Socialists and Radicals secured a parliamentary majority, instructed the government to re-open the case. A new trial was ordered for Captain Dreyfus, who was brought back to France after nearly four years on He du Diable. But it was again a military trial and another verdict of guilty was brought in. This time, however, the court found extenuating circumstances, reduced the sentence and recommended mercy. Whereupon President Loubet of France granted Captain Dreyfus a pardon...
Still the case was not over. In 1902 the French government put through an anticlerical program and the religious issue revived the Dreyfus Case until Alfred Dreyfus demanded another trial finally to clear his name. In 1906 the third Dreyfus trial (this time not by a military organization) was held and resulted in Captain Dreyfus being absolved from all blame whatsoever. The generally accepted version of the Dreyfus Case was that Major Esterhazy and Colonel Henry had made a business of supplying Germany with military information; that advantage of the Anti-Semetic feeling had been taken to victimize Alfred Dreyfus...