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ROBERT R. SPEARS JR.
Skinned Alive. Chicago-born Novelist Mary Borden (Mary of Nazareth, etc.) knew him well. Her husband, Major General Sir Edward L. Spears, went to France in 1940 as Winston Churchill's special liaison officer with Premier Reynaud. When he returned to England with De Gaulle after the fall of...
"He was like a man . . . who had been skinned alive. . . . The slightest contact with friendly, well-meaning people got him on the raw to such an extent that he wanted to bite, as a dog that has been run over will bite in its agony any would-be friend. . . . The...
Mary Borden's story of the Hadfield-Spears hospital unit, in the Levant, North Africa, Italy and France, casts many a sidelight on the "fanatic" Charles de Gaulle. The picture that remains is of the "pitiable business when a great man suddenly becomes small."
Three years ago, the Chavantes again stood in the path of Brazil's great dream-the "March to the West." Airmen of the Brazilian Central Foundation, a grandiose colonizing scheme, dropped on them pots, pans and even pictures of Hollywood pinup girls. That only frightened the Indians. Rondon'...