Word: jourdain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Wanderer still at loose in Germany could last week have learned some tricks from an engrossing tale* told by Englishman Oscar Millard, onetime London correspondent in Belgium now in Hollywood doing a movie version. He heard it from Paul Jourdain, whose father Victor was pre-War publisher of Le Patriote and Wartime publisher of La Libre Belgique (Free Belgium). The German occupants in Brussels silenced all other patriotic Belgian papers but in spite of all efforts Free Belgium defied the Germans to the very day of the Armistice, then carried on to become the fourth largest modern Belgian daily...
Most influential among Belgian Catholic editors, Victor Jourdain was stunned by the tragic fallacy of his policy of pacifism when Belgium was overrun. Soured, the old man vowed never to give the Germans the satisfaction of a silent opposition. He built a trapdoor to his attic, began translating smuggled copies of London papers. Through an intermediary who used a false name, Victor Jourdain supplied money to build up a staff of patriotic priests and laymen for gathering articles and distributing 20,000 copies of Free Belgium, taunting the German occupants and preaching patriotic passive resistance. The stories, written on thin...
...days before the Armistice Victor Jourdain died, but for nearly two years previous police had suspected him and he had turned over to others the reckless venture he had begun. In four years 171 issues were distributed (some a week late) and only the last was openly issued without fear of death. Victor Jourdain had made good his taunt: "We defy our persecutors ever to silence us. Truth will cry louder than their lies...
...week Captain Vivian Hewitt (first aviator to fly the Irish Sea-1912) bought two eggs and two skins, for a total of $7,245, and these added to his previous collections made him in turn the world's greatest private Great Auk collector. The Rev. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Vicar of Ashburn-cum-Mapleton, president of the British Oölogists Union, also bought two eggs...