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...stare at the bier of the illustrious pactmaker. Aristide Briand. All Paris seemed to be wrapped in a shroud of melancholy over the passing of the great democrat-all but a luncheon party of American. British and Swedish bankers who waited in edgy silence at the Hotel du Rhin to confer with an autocratic emperor of finance. "Match King'' Ivar Kreuger. If they had cause for melancholy, they did not yet know it. They were somewhat nervous about some bookkeeping discrepancies that had cropped up in one of Kreuger's subsidiary companies, and there had been Ivar...
...Match Palace in Stockholm, he forged with his own hand $143 million in Italian government bonds. By now, Kreuger's Depression-gored empire was bleeding cash too fast to be saved by bogus credit plasma. A sprinkling of embarrassing questions began. As they sat in the Hotel du Rhin waiting to hear his answers. Ivar Kreuger fobbed off his creditors with one final, non-negotiable note: "Goodbye now and thanks...
From the Basses-Pyrenees to the Haut-Rhin, from the Pas-de-Calais to the Bouches-du-Rhone, voters had good reason to think of Algeria: many of their sons and husbands are there. Unlike the war in Indo-China, where only volunteers were sent (many of them Germans in the Foreign Legion, or African Negroes), the police action in Algeria has been largely waged by French conscripts-reservists called back to the service, and draftees held overtime...
...returned to France and went underground. By 1943 he was running the intelligence service of the "French Army Resistance Organization." When the U.S. forces landed in southern France, Navarre joined them, fought in the liberation of France, later led a regiment of mounted Spahis in De Lattre's Rhin et Danube army. He was seven times cited for bravery, wears the Croix de Guerre and Resistance Medal with rosette. Since then he has commanded a French armored division and been deputy commander in chief of the French occupation forces in Germany. His most recent job: chief of staff...
...physician had warned him the day before that his heart would not stand much more. "M. Kreuger is sleeping," said the concierge of the apartment about 1:30 p.m. when Vice President Krister Littorin of Swedish Match, who had expected to lunch with his chief at the Hotel du Rhin. anxiously arrived. As Herr Littorin pushed into the bedroom President Kreuger, dressed in a business suit, seemed peacefully asleep upon his bed. Manhattan's Stock Exchange was still open. The French police were instructed by a Cabinet Minister to keep mum. Even when selling of Kreuger & Toll in Wall...