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...Paris, General de Gaulle's Provisional Government took a major step toward the reconstruction of its shattered country. It adopted rules aimed to make the press of liberated France honest and responsible. In the U.S., meantime, France's fanned Journalist André Géraud ("Pertinax") published an authoritative book on his country's betrayers (The Gravediggers of France; Doubleday, Doran; $6) with an illuminating chapter on the notorious, cynical venality of the press in prewar France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The French Press | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...were there out of morbid curiosity. They, like millions of other Frenchmen, could guess what final cruelties and betrayals Laval would abet - if Adolf Hitler willed it. They knew Laval would stop at nothing to assure a German victory. Laval had said (in a letter quoted by the journalist Pertinax, who estimated that 90% of the French people are pro-British): "I fully realize that the hangman will quickly take care of me on the day British arms triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: That Flabby Hand, That Evil Lip | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Lieu of Zola | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...much of a voice, they have made their new show as lively as their news copy, have persuaded many a bigwig to appear with them on the air. Among their famous foils to date: William S. Knudsen, Mrs. Roosevelt, Robert Jackson, Lord Lothian, and last week famed French Commentator Pertinax (Andre Géraud), who described the reasons behind the collapse of France in his first public pronouncement since he arrived in the U. S. in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Summer Flash | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...France and the eager hands of Chief Heinrich Himmler's ransoming Gestapo was not expected. Other estates were also confiscated in the effort to grovel for Nazi favor, including those of Louis Rosengart, manufacturer of France's "baby Fords," and famed Journalists Genevieve Tabouis, Andre Geraud ("Pertinax"), Pierre Lazareff and Henri de Kerillis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Trials & Improvisations | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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