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...Dilemma. In his desperation, Deputy Galle called in the only Frenchman who could save the hostages-an Alsatian collaborator with the Nazis-Edouard Schneider. Edouard had no scruples. Once the employe of Andre Galle, he had become a rich newspaper proprietor. It amused sardonic Edouard to protect the family of his old Socialist employer from his Nazi friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Escape | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...peasant showed Edouard a sawed-off shotgun buried in the Galle barn, and Edouard soon began to wonder whether one of the family had not committed the murder. It could not be Andre; it could not be Daughter Franchise. But what about Son Blaise who insulted Edouard at every turn? Or his Communist buddy Maurice, who worked in the Galle house and had once murdered an enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Escape | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...Edouard got no help from Franchise, who had once loved him. She knew that her brother Blaise and Maurice were planning an escape to England. Soon she learned, to her amazement, that with them was going her American lover, Simon, who, by an unusual coincidence, had joined the British Commandos and been left behind in Brittany after a commando raid. As more & more evidence appeared to incriminate the Galle household, Franchise was torn by conflicting desires: to save the hostages, to see her suspected brother and lover escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Escape | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Authoress Vance saves Franchise from making a decision. It is Edouard who decides that it is in his interest to stop being sentimental and to turn the whole family over to the German authorities. And it is sullen, proletarian Maurice who pleads guilty, so that Blaise and Lover Simon may escape and the hostages go free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Escape | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...same reason that Edouard Herriot would not promise not to leave France, other Frenchmen would not promise to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Insult | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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