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Among other works scheduled for publication are three Chinese grammer texts by Yuen Ren Chao, an occasional lecturer at the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
...curbed personal attacks on men like Georges Bidault, whose Resistance leadership they had accepted. But it was obvious that sooner or later the Communists would do away with such sentimental nonsense. By last week, the last remnants of France's gallant unity crashed in the treason trial of René Hardy...
...charged him with coordinating all of France's hopelessly scattered resistance knots. The result was the National Council of Resistance which unified all underground activities. It was at one of the council's meetings (at Caluire-et-Cuire, near Lyons, on June 21, 1943) that Max met René Hardy. That meeting was raided by the Gestapo, and all the men there were arrested. Now René Hardy was accused of tipping off the Gestapo that...
...Last of the Hardys. As "L'Affaire 'Ardy" wore on, public sympathy swung heavily to Hardy's side. Paris' stuffy Court of Assizes (where Pétain and Laval had been tried) was crammed with veterans of the Resistance-and with their memories. Said one René Hardouin, owner of a coffee stall at a Paris railway station, who had sabotaged railroads under Hardy: "I don't know whether he denounced anyone. When they torture you, you give away anything, after a time. But Hardy is a hero, anyway." At the end of the trial...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Gounod's Faust, with Tenor Jussi Bjoerling, Basso Ezio Pinza, Soprano Renée Mazella...