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...choosing three cardinals each from victorious France, defeated Germany and neutral, totalitarian Spain. But once more he was practical as well as spiritual: in France and Germany he took care to pick shining lights of the resistance. Outstanding selections: small, half-paralyzed Archbishop Jules-Géraud Saliege of Toulouse, who during France's occupation openly attacked German treatment of Jews and conscription of Frenchmen; massive, blue-blooded Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Munster, whose anti-Nazi sermons and pastorals nearly cost him his life; benign, bald Bishop Konrad von Preysing of Berlin, who, when the Nazis came...
During his years in the U.S., Pertinax (real name: André Géraud) had lost none of his reputation for perspicacity. In New York and in Washington, whither he moved in 1943, he was often a better source on European politics than reporters in Europe. He was the first to predict the Teheran conference between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. In November 1943 he suggested a United Nations Council, with headquarters in the U.S. He tactfully called it "the Big Four," leaving out his still-prostrate France. Long before most others did, he foresaw Marshal Tito's triumph over...
...rolled on to 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...
Vichy's continued surrender of Jews to the Nazis last week brought forth one of the war's most eloquent documents-a brief pastoral letter from Jules Géraud Saliège, the semiparalyzed Archbishop of Toulouse. Said the Archbishop in full...
...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...