' Freeing' of Paris Is Laid To Error in Translation
Date: 25 August 1944
By The United Press
FFI and Allied hdqrs, London, see mistaken translation of FFI communique as possible explanation of premature rept of Paris fall
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour (born 25 August 1944), is a Canadian-British writer and former politician, newspaper publisher, financier, and convicted felon.
Black's father was businessman George Montegu Black II, who had significant holdings in Canadian manufacturing, retail and media businesses through part-ownership of the holding company Ravelston Corporation. In 1978, two years after their father's death, Conrad and his older brother Montegu took majority control of Ravelston. Over the next seven years, Conrad Black sold off most of their non-media holdings to focus on newspaper publishing. He controlled Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire, which published The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun-Times (US), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before controversy erupted over the sale of some of the company's assets.
Black was granted a life peerage in 2001 and gave up his Canadian citizenship to accept the title in light of the Nickle Resolution, which bans British honours for Canadian citizens. He regained his Canadian citizenship in 2023.
In 2007, Black was convicted on four counts of fraud in a United States district court in Chicago. While two of the criminal fraud charges were overturned on appeal, a conviction for felony fraud and obstruction of justice was upheld in 2010 and he was re-sentenced to 42 months in prison and a fine of $125,000. In 2019, President Donald Trump granted him a federal pardon.
Black is a longtime columnist and author, and has written a column for the National Post since he founded it in 1998. He has written eleven books, mostly in the fields of Canadian and American history, including biographies of Quebec premier Maurice Duplessis and US presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump, as well as two memoirs. He has also hosted two interview shows on the Canadian cable network VisionTV. A political conservative, he belonged to the UK's Conservative Party, but also has some idiosyncratic views, including his support for Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Date: 25 August 1944
By The United Press
FFI and Allied hdqrs, London, see mistaken translation of FFI communique as possible explanation of premature rept of Paris fall
Date: 25 August 1944
Urges free post-war world press, Free World (pub)
Date: 25 August 1944
Christmas manual ready for distribution; repts on Wac recruiting ad
Date: 26 August 1944
only ordinary rules of mil censorship to prevail according to French-Allied pact provision
Date: 25 August 1944
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Queries Sec Stimson on recall of correspondents by 9th Air Force
Date: 25 August 1944
Explains how C Collingwood premature dispatch on Paris liberation missed army field censor; Allied Sup Hdqrs comment
Date: 25 August 1944
All Spanish and Portuguese links with Ger broken except radio