Word: rard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best M'bida could manage was a kind of double knockout. Gérard Jaquet, Minister for France Overseas, transferred Ramadier to another post, but gave M'bida no help at all. The Premier dejectedly flew back to the Cameroons' capital of Yaounde, where, realizing that he faced certain defeat in Parliament, he resigned. As successor, the French chose Amadou Ahidjo, 33, who had served as Vice Premier and Interior Minister in M'bida's government. Ahidjo announced his policy: independence (but without a timetable), union of the British and French Cameroons, cooperation with France...
Last week the High Court sat again for what was probably the last trial of a top Vichy official. The accused: Jacques Guérard, once a brilliant young climber in French bureaucracy, who became Traitor Laval's righthand man, served as his secretary-general from 1942-44. He escaped to Spain ahead of the Allied armies, was condemned to death in absentia. Three years ago he surrendered voluntarily to stand trial for treason. This time the High Court judges were calm, judicially correct members of the French Parliament. Charged with negotiating a German mission in Dakar, and with...
Just as urbanely the judges listened. After two hours' deliberation, they handed out their punishment: a five-year suspended sentence. Twelve years after, the passionate division of all France between those who collaborated and those who resisted had worn itself out. Noted one Paris newspaper: "Guérard's best defense attorney was time...
...this full-dress biography, the late French Critic Gérard Jean-Aubry, editor of Conrad's letters, has taken soundings along the well-charted course of the Conrad legend. The legend is well known? the young Polish exile who began to learn English from Lowestoft sailors at 21, became a ship's master at 29, voyaged to the Caribbean and the China Seas, and who, at 36, took to the shore and, despite poverty, neglect and illness, made himself a master novelist. It is all true. Jean- Aubry, who spent 20 years writing this book, fills in the blank spaces...
Apart from the animal motif, Ritchard has staged the affair with the wit of a Gilbert-and-Sullivan romp and the style of a top-drawer fancy-dress ball. Bouncing about like a tall, elegant puppet, he lives up to the excellent settings by Rolf Gérard (including a hilarious-looking Dungeon for Recalcitrant Husbands) and he delivers the lines and lyrics of Playwright Maurice Valency's able English adaptation with skilled gusto. In fact, Ritchard is guilty of only one flaw. He has included a cancan that is danced by the corps de ballet in more...