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Within an hour after Fighting Frenchman Georges Catroux arrived in Algiers last week (see col. 1), the Giraud Government announced the dismissal of Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, a French industrialist (peanut oil) who had taken a devious but potent hand in North African affairs...
...Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist who helped to prepare the way for the U.S. landings, once had interests in the Fascist-edited Parisian newspaper Le Jour. The Fighting French denounce him as a onetime member of the Cagoulards, an extreme rightist society which is still potent in North Africa...
...TIME reported the peace offensive (TIME, July 8, 1940), suggested Madrid as the most likely scene of negotiations (which may also have been true). Ex-Ambassador Davies identified the negotiators only as "an American businessman and industrialist, who had spent many years in Europe, and a European businessman who had been very successful...
Philip Dorn, who has his first starring role in this picture, shows that he deserves a better one. As a French industrialist who stays in Paris to collaborate with the Nazis, he has moments in which he almost makes the picture seem important. But the film, which starts as if it were going to be a portrait of a traitor, soon becomes just another melodrama...
Johnston, who is now in Washington serving on the advisory committee of James Byrnes, national economic stabilization director, was formerly a West Coast industrialist and a captain in the Marines during the last war. He was graduated from the University of Washington...