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Isorni first gained notoriety in France following World War II when he unsuccessfully defended collaborationist Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France during the Nazi occupation, against charges of treason. In The True Trial of Jesus, Isorni set out to prove the innocence of the Jewish people. Isorni's thesis is similar to that of Jewish Historian Haim Cohn, author of The Trial and Death of Jesus, and Anglican Scholar S.G.F. Brandon, who wrote The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth. They argue that Jesus was condemned to die not because a Jewish tribunal objected...
...enviable economic crisis. Rising oil prices threatened to fill the national coffers at more than triple the 1973 rate of $3 billion. "The $10 billion will crush us," warned former Minister of Mines and OPEC Founder Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo. "We have a President with a moun tain of gold to dispense. Everyone will be thinking how to put his hand...
Powerless Commission. Even though the Communists now appear to have enough materiel stockpiled to sus tain major fighting for at least twelve months, Western intelligence experts do not expect them to launch a serious offensive in the near future. Nonetheless, Western analysts have a notably poor record deciphering Communist intentions; they failed to predict the massive offensives of Tet 1968 and Easter 1972. The frequency of the cease-fire viola tions convinces South Vietnamese lead ers that Hanoi has not abandoned its aim to take over the entire South...
Since the bizarre theft occurred only two weeks before France's parliamentary elections, the caper had distinct political overtones. If Pétain's body were to be found before the elections, there would be considerable public clamor to bury it in the national military cemetery at Douaumont near Verdun; in 1971 a public-opinion poll, taken for the Bordeaux newspaper Sud-Ouest, showed that 72% of the French people favored such a move. The "nou-velle affaire Pétain," as the French were calling the caper, revived old political quarrels over the sensitive issue of national...
...right-wing candidate for the National Assembly and a veteran of the Algerian war, held a press conference in Paris at which he boasted that he alone knew where the body was. "I will keep my secret," he said, "until the President of the Republic rehabilitates Pétain, and his remains are transferred to Douaumont...