Word: picquart
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...aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially disliked Dreyfus. Novelist Emile Zola ripped into the nasty mess with his famous l'accuse! Georges Clemenceau became a Dreyfusard; famous lawyers kept trying to reopen the case at the risk of their lives. Not until July...
Climbers--D. Lloyd (captain), E. S. Harrison, R. Pierce, H. D. Parkin, B. S. Horkheimer, G. L. Wire, T. B. Souther, T. D. R. Robinson, L. Carpenter, S. Wylie, J. Swift, Picquart, T. F. Brennan, K. Sherburne...
...widespread protest in this country at the present moment against the practices of the British government might thus materially assist the efforts of fair-minded Englishmen like Lehman, just as two years ago the world wide protest against the French government helped Zola and Picquart. Can not Harvard men then give some more deliberate and formal expression to those opinions which twice within the past fortnight have so strikingly revealed themselves...
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