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...Died. Raoul Nordling, 79, Sweden's consul general in Paris for 32 years, winner of France's highest honor, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, for saving the city from destruction in August of 1944 by arranging a truce between the Resistance and German troops until the Allies arrived; of a heart attack; in Paris...
Defense Attorney Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, a foxy ultrarightist who defended S.A.O. Leader Raoul Salan, tried desperately to get the trial postponed. His reason was obvious: the latest S.A.O. ambush,* which almost killed De Gaulle last month, had destroyed any current of sympathy for the defendants...
...Little Caesar Edward G. Robinson, 68, ten weeks after suffering a heart attack on location for Sammy Going South 6,000 feet up among the foothills of Tanganyika. He comforted himself during his recuperation by gazing on the works of two of his favorite painters, Cezanne and Raoul Dufy, lent by a local gallery, and by pondering his long film career, in which he played mostly the no-good. Conclusion: "Some people have youth, some have beauty. I had menace." After mulling over the situation for four days with top executives at a Maine resort, Paul Sonnabend, 35, vice president...
Reason Reasserted. Announced Susini over the air: "The Secret Army has ceased fighting." But diehards in the provincial cities refused to accept the inevitable, even though, in a letter from his prison cell, the captured leader of the S.A.O., ex-General Raoul Salan, backed the truce. The fanatical S.A.O. leadership in Oran swore to continue the struggle. S.A.O. mortar shells landed on oil tanks near Oran. In Bone, the city hall was put to the torch by S.A.O. fanatics. The exodus of Europeans continued at the rate...
...sharply defeated. Even as angry debate on the motion rang from the Assembly floor, news tickers clacked out word of an extraordinary move by ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, who was condemned to death last month by the same military tribunal that later spared the life of his S.A.O. boss, Raoul Salan...