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Three days after the Nazis seized Austria, Gedye was escorted to the border; He had offended: 1) by describing the cuffing German police had given some Austrian generals; 2) by casting doubt on a Gestapo assertion that it had arrested only 600 Austrians. In Prague Gedye continued his fight, sending bitter pieces to his papers,' writing a book (published as Fallen Bastions in England, Betrayal in Central Europe in America...
...witness continued: he was not responsible for the murders of French patriots by Vichyminister Joseph Darnand's notorious "Blackbird" militia. He had denounced no one. In fact, he personally had saved ex-Premier Reynaud and Léon Blum from Gestapo execution. The prosecution confronted Laval with a letter he had written to Pétain: "... A few spectacular executions will prevent disorder and anarchy. . . ." Cried Laval: "I respect human life." (Searing laughter in the courtroom...
Vansittart rejects the idea that the German nation was enslaved and misled by the Kaiser and the Nazis. He finds the whole nation guilty. "In Poland, Russia, Yugoslavia, Greece, France, brave men and women defied alike Gestapo and German Army. In the teeth of seemingly hopeless odds [they] took to the hills and forests. . . . Were there no hills or forests in Germany...
There is the blood-red flag with the black double-headed German eagle that Photographer Bob Landry tore from the wall of Gestapo Headquarters in Gela, Sicily (it might have cost him his life; he found out later that two British officers were killed by a booby trap in that room). There is the Japanese flag a Marine Corps sergeant who graduated from the MARCH OF TIME'S School for Combat Photographers sent us after the battle for Hill 660 on Cape Gloucester (scribbled all around the Rising Sun are good wishes from the friends...
...Geoffrey Parsons Jr., 36, smart, stocky editor of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, son of the home edition's smart chief editorial writer; and Dorothy Lee Blackman Tartiere, blonde, American ex-cinemactress, who spent the German occupation helping Allied flyers to hide from the Gestapo ; he for the second time, she for the third; in Paris...