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...number-three slot, Michael Terner aggressively played the net to beat opponent Mark Jeffrey, 6-2, 6-3, while Warren Grossman, in the number-four position, followed Terner's lead to turn in identical scores against opponent Raud Stephen...
Died. André Géraud, 92, Cassandra-like French columnist known as Pertinax (Latin for resolute); in Ségur-le-Château, France. In his daily columns in Echo de Paris, Pertinax in the 1930s warned about the danger of appeasing Hitler. When Nazi panzers crushed France in 1940, he escaped via Bordeaux on an English destroyer. In the U.S. during the war, he wrote his best-known work, The Gravediggers of France, a historical exposé of the men responsible for his country's fall...
Died. Henri Béraud, 73, French writer, toxic reactionary, anti-democrat, antiMason, anti-Semite, Anglophobe, 1922 winner of the Prix Goncourt for The Martyrdom of the Obese, a novel; on the island of Ile de Ré, France. Author of a 1935 essay entitled Should England Be Reduced to Slavery?* Béraud was a principal contributor to the mixed-up weekly newspaper Gringoire, went right on pouring out his enmity toward both Britain and the Free French-as well as the Nazis -during World War II. Tried after the liberation for collaborating in word if not in deed...
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When it comes to putting Frenchmen into the tumbrels of political recrimination, none are more skillful than other Frenchmen. In The Gravediggers of France, in 1944, French Journalist Pertinax (André Géraud) called Paul Reynaud the third gravedigger (after Gamelin and Daladier and before Pétain and Laval). Reynaud now makes an eloquent case for the proposition that, if he helped dig the grave, it was really his political enemies who committed the murder and provided the corpse...