Word: hari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ranged the red-robed High Court of Justice, a three-man tribunal headed by stern Pierre Mongibeaux, 65, (in 1941 he had sworn loyalty to Pétain's Vichy Government). The public prosecutor was André Mornet, 75 (in World War I he sent Spy Mata Hari to the firing squad). The 24-man jury had been chosen half from the Resistance movement, half from non-collaborationist ex-parliamentarians. Behind the prisoner sat his counsel, his doctors and nurses, the witnesses (there would be about 50), the tightly packed reporters and spectators...
...Philippe Petain, the Government of General Charles de Gaulle called from retirement the scourge of World War I's spies and traitors. At 75, famed Counselor Andre Mornet was tired, bent and heavy-eyed. His frayed red robe might have been the one he wore at the Mata Hari trial. But when he rose, red of face and white of beard, to open the case against Vichy, his years fell away, his old fire flashed...
This time the defendant was no Mata Hari. It was Vichy's bewhiskered, palsied, senescent (64) Jean-Pierre Esteva, the five-star admiral who had been Marshal Petain's Resident General of Tunisia. Cried Counselor Mornet: Esteva was the creature of Petain, who will soon be brought to trial in absentia. Esteva did not resist the Germans in Tunisia; instead, he appealed to the Free French to desert, conscripted Tunisians to help the Axis. "I ask death for the man who was content to accept dishonor...
...Professor Cunningham, gave us the word on the Sixth War Loan drive. After the little quiz yesterday, (answer rumored to be in the six hundreds), you'll know how to make the proper checkage. Buy bonds and make a down payment on one of Lt. Towne's special Hari Kari Kits...
...acquaintances and activities spread, S. K. began to cultivate a dual personality. "After all," he says, "I had none of the assets of a Mata Hari. So I played the role of a man who understands nothing at all. . . . My incredible ignorance provoked people-Italians as well as Germans-into giving me detailed explanations of matters I wanted to know. ... To carry this off I had to plan every conversation in the greatest detail, word for word, even to facial expressions." For S. K. did not underestimate his task. It was: to out-Gestapo the Gestapo, already very active...