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Lucidity & Nothingness. Le Monde's influential political writer, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, took up where Schuman left off. "What is so mysterious about France," he wrote, "is its impotence. It is that lucidity is followed by nothing. If you listen to an old minister, he will explain to you with serenity what could have been done. If you have occasion to meet a man today in power, he will brilliantly depict what must be done. The ideas are seductive, the directions are clearly fixed, the plans are meticulous; France comprehends the universe. And then nothing, or nearly nothing...
Russian Witness. But Dr. Schreiber's self-praise, and the praise bestowed on him by the flight surgeons, grated on the ears of a few U.S. physicians and lawyers who remembered the record of the Nürnberg war-crimes trials. Dr. Schreiber was one of 200 German physicians sought by U.S. prosecutors for questioning and possible trial on charges of having performed or abetted inhuman experiments on human subjects. Schreiber was out of reach until the Russians produced him to testify against Hermann Göring. Then, when U.S. officials tried to get their hands...
...Schreiber, an army doctor since World War I, had been in charge of the scientific side of the Wehrmacht medical academy in Berlin. That much was clear. So was the fact that he had worked closely with men who were later hanged or imprisoned for war crimes. According to testimony at Nürnberg, he had attended meetings where grisly experiments on human subjects were discussed. But most of the direct charges against him came from human experimenters who were trying to save their own necks...
Back to Paperclip. Confronted with this background, and asked what Consultant Schreiber was doing to advance Global Preventive Medicine, the Air Force stammered out some seemingly contradictory statements: 1) he was working merely on unclassified matters, 2) the project was classified confidential and could not be discussed. The Air Force said it knew nothing of these echoes of Nürnberg when it engaged Schreiber, and had no good way of sifting them...
...thing the Air Force was sure of: Schreiber's six-month contract as a consultant expired last week and it will not be renewed. The Air Force bucked Schreiber back to Operation Paperclip, which had no way of pronouncing him guilty or innocent either, but which might send him home...