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...just out of St. Cyr in World War I, he earned his first wound and his first citation in a victorious hand-to-hand clash with two German Uhlans. Transferred to the infantry, he was wounded four more times in the same war, wounded again fighting the Riffs in Morocco in 1925. In 1939 he became the youngest general (50) in the French army, and fought gamely in the Third Republic's dying hours...
Your Nov. 19 story of the tragic death of my friends Freddy and Claude McEvoy is not correct in all its details. They were married in the garden of the Windsor Hotel in Nassau. I performed the ceremony, and the best man was John Perona of El Morocco, with Mrs. Duncan McMartin as matron of honor...
...determination for British-held Cyprus (in the hope that it would go Greek). Guatemala wanted Britain to give up British Honduras to Guatemala. Egypt kept up her demand for British withdrawal from the Suez Canal and the Sudan. All the Arab states demanded an end to French rule of Morocco, even though the General Assembly's General Committee had voted against bringing up the subject in this session. When the Arabs persisted in discussing it, French Delegate Léon Pignon and his aides walked out. "The jackals are after us," admitted one British official sadly...
...succeeded in swimming ashore. The last aboard the yacht, Freddy and Claude, both good swimmers, finally decided to chance it. Side by side they dived into the water. Freddy was within two yards of the beach when he looked back and saw his pretty wife in trouble. While Morocco tribesmen shouted from the beach, the playboy-millionaire turned seaward once again. The effort was too much. Just as he reached his wife, Freddy's strength gave out. A great wave engulfed and drowned them both...