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Picture, if you can, Johann Strauss as a Don Juan in Sinatra clothing acted by an insignificant George Rigaud, who, though portraying the role of the Vienese Waltz King took no pains in disguising an obvious French accent. Picture Ralph Dumke as a mediocre W. C. Fields, General Grant popping in and out with trite world peace comments, Beacon Hill prudes condemning the immoral waltz, ballet scenes dragged in now and then, all this with gaudy costumes, plaids of all descriptions and colors splashed on the stage...
There were other irritations. Slick, sleek Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, big-time oilman, banker and part owner of the prewar pro-Fascist Paris Jour, had contrived to slip out of Algiers, turn up in Madrid. With him was Jean Rigaud, long his secretary, fixer and crony and a member of the short-lived Giraud government. The Gaullists suspected that Allied officials had supplied the passes and transportation, that a serious effort to save the skins of many Vichymen was being prepared...
...General of Algeria, off to sympathetic Spain. He placed the anti-Vichy René Chambe in charge of propaganda. Charles Brunei, anti-Vichy former mayor of Algiers, was brought into the Council of War Economy. Reactionary General Jean Bergeret, Giraud's deputy civil commander, and Fascist-minded Jean Rigaud, political secretary of the North African war council, resigned. Previously Giraud had said: "I think after I announce my plans they will kick themselves...
...appointed head of Peyrouton's important Council of War Economy. A former mayor of Algiers, Brunei escaped arrest during a De Gaullist roundup last December only by virtue of his prestige. His son Jacques was in jail until last month. Out as propaganda secretary went pro-Axis Jean Rigaud, to be replaced by distinguished General Rene Michel Jules Joseph Chambe, a soldier and writer untainted by Axis collaboration...
...quit. The only way to avoid it is to be put to shame by a small group of men to whom this acting is life itself, and who refuse to quit; or by a naturally courageous man doing a brave deed. It was at this moment that Charles Alfred Rigaud, the boy with tired circles under his eyes, showed himself to be a good officer and grown man. Despite snipers all around us, despite the machine guns and the mortar fire, he stood right up on his feet and shouted out: 'Who in Christ's name gave that...