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...there a double standard for war criminals? Frenchmen were asking themselves that question last week after revelation of the very different attitude that President Georges Pompidou has taken toward two such criminals, one German and one French. The German is Klaus Barbie, who was Gestapo chief in Lyon during World War II, and is living in Bolivia under the name Klaus Altmann (TIME, Feb. 14). Pompidou has been publicly and energetically demanding Altmann's extradition to France. Now the weekly L'Express has revealed that Pompidou, against the advice of his Minister of Justice, last November secretly granted...
...from him, either. He is guided by his sense of what a loyal policeman should do and think. When the ugliness of events looms before him, he shuts his eyes and keeps on working. He lacks the humanity of Nansen, who agrees to hide the deserter Klaas from the Gestapo. The painter quickly abandons generalities when he is confronted by a contradictory reality. Although Nansen joined the Nazis when the Party was still a small band of loudmouthed chauvinists, he rejects the National Socialist State just as everybody begins to cheer it, because he sees the brutality behind the ideals...
...Morland Churchill, 63, top British agent with the French Resistance during World War II; of spinal cancer; in Cannes, France. Churchill made four clandestine trips (two by submarine, two by parachute) into German-occupied France. On his fourth mission, he and his aide, Odette Sansom, were captured by the Gestapo and tortured. They were spared from execution because the Germans believed they were married and related to Winston Churchill (they were neither). Reunited at war's end, they did marry, and their wartime exploits were made the subject of the 1951 movie Odette...
...Russia. "Behind closed doors you can make a gullible people believe any lie," said Solzhenitsyn, a former artillery captain who was decorated three times for bravery. "They say, 'Solzhenitsyn gave himself up to the Germans-no, he surrendered a whole battery. Even better, he worked right in the Gestapo...
Screenwriter Carol Eastman was talking with friends recently about her upcoming debut as a film director. "What," asked one, "are you going to wear-a muumuu, a Gestapo uniform or a terry-cloth robe, mules and pin curls?" Miss Eastman, who wrote Five Easy Pieces, was understandably annoyed. "I turned to a man who had just directed his first picture and said, 'Did they ask you what you were going to wear...