RED CROSS: Punishable Eccentricity

Ever since he linked up with the Communists in 1939, Professor André Bonnard has become a sort of Swiss pocket edition of the Red Dean of Canterbury. A son of a wealthy Lausanne family and a respected Greek scholar (his translation of Antigone was played last fall at Paris's Comédie Française), Professor Bonnard has one eccentricity—he heads the Swiss branch of the Red-run World Peace Partisans. Last week the Swiss Federal Council, Switzerland's national executive body, announced that it regards Professor Bonnard's activities as more than eccentric.

At the instigation of another Communist stooge, France's Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Bonnard had set...

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