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...From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics in the modern world drew the biggest crowd. In the murk of Gothic Mandel Hall, 2,000 heard totalitarianism doomed by Professors Maritain, Tawney and Charles H. Mcllwain (Harvard) and President Hutchins. Although the learned gen tlemen, like lesser citizens, disagreed on the issue of war and peace they all agreed on the evils of totalitarianism...
Died. César Campinchi, 58, lean, volcanic Corsican, one of the great criminal lawyers of his time, Minister of the Marine in the last government of Republican France; after an operation; in Marseille. He unceasingly opposed the Munich policy, fled with Daladier and Mandel to North Africa when the Army collapsed last June, unlike them was never interned to be tried for treason...
...week's end two Jews who had helped rule the land, onetime Premier Léon Blum and onetime Colonial and Interior Minister Georges Mandel, were haled before the judges of Riom as the "war guilt" trials began in earnest...
...writer who hides his identity under the pseudonym André Simone may be Pertinax (André Geraud), André Gide, André Malraux, Georges Mandel, Geneviève Tabouis. All deny that they wrote J'Accuse! The book is a lurid charge that most of France's political and military leaders were traitors-those who were not were dupes. A good deal of the charge is based on whispers from Senators, confidences from Cabinet Ministers, tips from newspapermen...
...week's end Blum and Reynaud were yet to be indicted. Of the others Mandel alone faces a possible sentence of death. He was charged with "treasonable acts" in attempting to cooperate with Great Britain's Duff Cooper and Lord Gort in Morocco in the hope of carrying on a pro-Ally Government after France had officially signed her armistice. The others face possible life imprisonment, with the present Premier, aging Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, holding power of pardon...