Word: dreyfusism
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Eleven came out alive. Mrs. Waterbury and her baby were hurt, but both had a chance for life. But twelve others, including Pierre Dreyfus and Herman Koegel, were dead. Captain Tansey was in critical condition, his copilot badly injured...
Back in the cabin, pretty Hostess Vina K. Ferguson moved up & down the aisle, settling the passengers for the night. She checked the seating list. The bald, bespectacled Frenchman nodding in his seat was Pierre N. Dreyfus, son of the late Captain Alfred Dreyfus whose false conviction for treason to France outraged the world 52 years ago. The older man was Herman Koegel, native of Rudnik, Poland. In New York his wife and daughter waited for their first reunion since the Gestapo snatched him from them and his small business in Köpenick, Germany, one night...
...some 70 pounds lighter after four months in jail on unspecified charges, was recuperating in a clinic near Paris (see cut). His case had not been brought before any court, nor was it likely to be. "L'Affaire Passy" had begun to smell like "L'Affaire Dreyfus...
Jean Tennyson, blonde star of radio's late Great Moments in Music (and wife of the sponsor's president, Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America), had a frightening moment in a friend's car. The door swung open and the singer, riding with the friend's 18-month-old son on her lap, landed in the street. Plump Soprano Tennyson got a bunged-up face; the baby landed unharmed...
...first great leader of modern Zionism (the name given the Return) was Theodor Herzl, who had been a foppish Viennese journalist until the Dreyfus case in France convinced him that Jews could never hope to be assimilated by other peoples. Herzl, who once claimed to sum up life in the words of a French popular song ("Life is vain, a bit of hope, a bit of hate, and then-good night!"), suddenly became the dynamic leader of Russian ghetto dwellers. At first he favored a British suggestion that persecuted Jews settle in fertile Uganda, but he found his followers would...