Jean Peron, a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. Frenchman, broke his leg in a northern Ontario gold mine in 1930, was compelled to give up mining engineering, eventually became a journalist. One night last week the blue-eyed, 50-year-old M. Peron was busy in his little office on Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal preparing the next edition of his two-year-old weekly, La Clarté (The Light). Suddenly six provincial police barged in, seized all correspondence and files, evicted Editor Peron and his assistant, stoutly padlocked La Clarte's doors and windows. In M. Peron's modest...
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