The Finaly boys were back. All France vibrated with the news last week, and the story of the year, which might have been invented by Novelist Graham Greene, shifted into a new chapter with a wail of police sirens.
Last week's action began in the tapestry-hung chamber of the Court of Cassation—the Supreme Court of France—when a black-robed justice read a decree upholding the decision of a lower court: Robert and Gerald Finaly, whose Jewish parents had died in a Nazi concentration camp, should be raised by their Jewish kinsmen rather than by their Roman Catholic foster mother, Antoinette Brun. For weeks...
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