{"id":19736,"date":"2016-12-20T04:25:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T04:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/?p=19736"},"modified":"2020-06-22T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:54:41","slug":"mdfdeusa-all-aboard-the-american-friendship-train-1947-2017-kudos-to-the-late-drew-pearson-mdfdejesuisladyliberty130-131-mdfdefriendshiptrainmercitrain70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/2016\/12\/20\/mdfdeusa-all-aboard-the-american-friendship-train-1947-2017-kudos-to-the-late-drew-pearson-mdfdejesuisladyliberty130-131-mdfdefriendshiptrainmercitrain70\/","title":{"rendered":"MDFDE\/FRANCE-USA: ‘MERCI’ Drew PEARSON! All Aboard the Friendship & Merci Trains! (1947-2019) #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain70"},"content":{"rendered":"
20 D\u00e9cembre 1947 :<\/strong> D\u00e9barqu\u00e9 au Havre le 18 d\u00e9cembre 1947, arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 la Gare Saint-Lazare \u00e0 Paris du “Friendship Train”, le convoi du Train am\u00e9ricain de l’Amiti\u00e9, en pr\u00e9sence du journaliste Drew Pearson, cr\u00e9ateur du projet ; et de Pierre de Gaulle, pr\u00e9sident du Conseil municipal de Paris et conseiller g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la Seine, plus jeune fr\u00e8re du G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Gaulle. This photo relates to the arrival by rail of the Friendship Train in Paris on 20 December 1947,<\/strong> and shows a handful of the dignitaries awaiting its arrival at the Gare St. Lazare. Journalist Drew Pearson<\/strong> is fourth from the left, standing beside American ambassador to France Jefferson Caffrey (wearing striped scarf). Gabrielle Griswold Private Collection.<\/address>\n
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Communiqu\u00e9 du MDFDE :<\/h2>\n

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Vous avez dit\u00a0 S O L I D A R I T \u00c9 ? Lancement des projets #MDFDEJeSuisLadyLiberty131<\/strong> et\u00a0<\/strong>#MDFDEFriendshipTrainMerciTrain70 <\/strong>en c\u00e9l\u00e9bration du 70\u00e8me Anniversaire de l’American Friendship Train (1947-2017) et du Merci Train fran\u00e7ais (1949-2019).<\/p>\n

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#GRATI<\/span>TUDE<\/span><\/h1>\n

#RESIS<\/span>TANCE<\/span><\/h1>\n

#MDFDE<\/span>Friendship<\/span>MerciTrain<\/span>70<\/span><\/h1>\n

\u00a9 The Official French-American Project entirely conceived by Ms. Elisabeth JENSSEN to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Friendship Train and the Merci Train (2017- 2019). All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Chair,<\/strong> Elisabeth Jenssen<\/p>\n

Honorary President:<\/strong> The Comte Gilbert de Pusy La Fayette<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/strong> elisabeth.jenssen@francaisdeletranger.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Friendship Train featuring the Statue of Liberty<\/h2>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pPS5-0QLJyE<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oWmYuvS7Aik<\/a><\/p>\n

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Friendship train begins trip to Europe<\/h2>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Exkim70mUhs<\/a><\/p>\n

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L\u2019embl\u00e8me du Train de la reconnaissance fran\u00e7aise.<\/p>\n

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Chers membres du MDFDE, chers amis internautes,<\/h2>\n

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Le 20 d\u00e9cembre 1947,<\/strong> il y a exactement 69 ans aujourd’hui, par la seule volont\u00e9 d’un homme, Drew PEARSON,<\/strong> le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre journaliste d’investigation am\u00e9ricain hautement controvers\u00e9 tout au long de sa carri\u00e8re (voir sa pr\u00e9sentation en anglais ci-dessous), arrivait \u00e0 la Gare Saint-Lazare \u00e0 Paris le “Friendship Train”,<\/em><\/strong> le “Train de l’Amiti\u00e9”,<\/em> <\/strong>un convoi d’aide alimentaire envoy\u00e9 par 49 \u00c9tats des \u00c9tats-Unis dont la Californie, New York et Hawaii en signe de solidarit\u00e9 \u00e0 la France – sa plus ancienne alli\u00e9e gr\u00e2ce aux exploits de notre h\u00e9ro\u00efque Marquis de La Fayette pendant la Guerre d’Ind\u00e9pendance am\u00e9ricaine et pour lequel fut \u00e9rig\u00e9e la Statue de la Libert\u00e9 –<\/strong> et \u00e0 l’Europe dont l’Italie qui avait tout aussi faim, manquait de tout au lendemain de sa longue et brutale Deuxi\u00e8me Guerre mondiale.<\/p>\n

Parti de Los Angeles, le 7 novembre 1947, avec seulement huit wagons de chemin de fer, ce projet humanitaire d’une grandeur exceptionnelle, peu connu de nos jours du grand public des deux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de l’Atlantique, remporta dans ses diverses escales \u00e0 travers les \u00c9tats-Unis un succ\u00e8s si populaire qu’\u00e0 son arriv\u00e9e triomphale \u00e0 New York, qui lui offrit une parade compl\u00e8te dans les rues de la ville le 18 novembre 1947, le convoi rassemblait au total plus de 700 wagons charg\u00e9s de 16\u00a0000 pr\u00e9cieuses tonnes de vivres, m\u00e9dicaments et v\u00eatements collect\u00e9s aupr\u00e8s de la population toute enti\u00e8re, des dons d’une valeur de 40 millions de dollars.<\/p>\n

Et comme l’Histoire nous l’enseigne \u00e0 chaque g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, une bonne action pouvant g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en inspirer d’autres \u00e0 faire de m\u00eame… L’ann\u00e9e suivante, la France voulant \u00e0 son tour remercier les \u00c9tats-Unis de leur remarquable g\u00e9n\u00e9rosit\u00e9, c’est sous le leadership d’Andr\u00e9 Picard, un v\u00e9t\u00e9ran et employ\u00e9 de la SNCF, soutenu par la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Nationale des Anciens Combattants des Chemins de Fer de France et par l\u2019Union fran\u00e7aise, que chaque ville et village se mobilisa, d\u00e9clencha une op\u00e9ration citoyenne d’une ampleur jamais vue, jamais \u00e9gal\u00e9e \u00e0 ce jour, donnant ainsi naissance \u00e0 son propre Train de la reconnaissance fran\u00e7aise<\/b>, son Merci Train, <\/i>un convoi de 49 wagons de chemin de fer de la SNCF (dont la majorit\u00e9 existe toujours expos\u00e9e dans divers lieux et parcs des \u00c9tats-Unis) surcharg\u00e9s de milliers de cadeaux des plus modestes aux plus riches partis de France par bateau vers New York et le reste des \u00c9tats-Unis achemin\u00e9 par… chemin de fer (sauf bien s\u00fbr pour Hawaii) en 1949.<\/p>\n

Fid\u00e8le aux traditions humanistes franco-am\u00e9ricaines universelles… C’est dans cet esprit pionnier de solidarit\u00e9, d’entraide, de coop\u00e9ration culturelle entre les peuples de bonne volont\u00e9 que rien ni personne ne pourra jamais arr\u00eater, que suite \u00e0 notre projet #MDFDEJeSuisLadyLiberty130<\/strong> r\u00e9alis\u00e9 entre Paris, New York et Seattle, cette ann\u00e9e, comme vous le savez, et qui nous guidera jusqu’\u00e0 l’ouverture, en 2019, sous le dynamique leadership de sa superbe marraine, Diane von Furstenberg, du nouveau Mus\u00e9e de la Statue de la Libert\u00e9 \u00e0 Liberty Island, New York. Qu’\u00e0 cinq jours de No\u00ebl, le MDFDE se lance un nouveau d\u00e9fi, d\u00e9marre son second sp\u00e9cial projet #MDFDEJeSuisLadyLiberty131 <\/strong>avec “antenne ferroviaire” #MDFDEFriendshipTrainMerciTrain70 <\/strong>en l’honneur du 70\u00e8me Anniversaire de lesdits Friendship Train<\/em> (2017) et Merci Train<\/em> (2019), une unique initiative ouverte \u00e9galement aux \u00e9coles fran\u00e7aises et am\u00e9ricaines partenaires du MDFDE.<\/p>\n

En ces temps d’incertitude collective, d’anxi\u00e9t\u00e9 internationale face \u00e0 l’adversit\u00e9, le plus beau des cadeaux – une note d’espoir – que nous pouvons faire \u00e0 nos enfants et petits-enfants passant par la transmission du savoir, du devoir de m\u00e9moire, le MDFDE et son propre expert en la mati\u00e8re, j’ai nomm\u00e9 mon ami Alexis Muller, vous invitent \u00e0 nous rejoindre pour d\u00e9couvrir ensemble – de son inception en 1947… \u00e0 sa conception en 1948… jusqu’\u00e0 sa r\u00e9alisation compl\u00e8te en 1949 –<\/strong> la fabuleuse histoire de nos Friendship Train<\/em> et Merci Train.<\/em> <\/b><\/p>\n

En vous souhaitant \u00e0 tous de bonnes f\u00eates de No\u00ebl et de fin d’ann\u00e9e ainsi qu’\u00e0 vos proches et amis. Ne baissons pas les bras ! Face aux difficult\u00e9s qui nous attendent d\u00e8s janvier, il n’y a pas de fatalit\u00e9 ! Tous \u00e0 bord du Train de la Libert\u00e9 et de l’Amiti\u00e9 “made in MDFDE” pour un voyage inoubliable dans le temps, au si\u00e8cle dernier, \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire de nos a\u00een\u00e9s qui ont r\u00e9sist\u00e9, dont certains ont pay\u00e9 de leur vie pour pr\u00e9server nos ch\u00e8res libert\u00e9s et la Paix ! Ne l’oublions jamais ! Tous soud\u00e9s !<\/p>\n

Fid\u00e8lement v\u00f4tre,<\/p>\n

Elisabeth Jenssen<\/strong> Pr\u00e9sidente-fondatrice<\/p>\n

Le Mouvement des Fran\u00e7ais de l\u2019Etranger (MDFDE) French & Francophones Abroad<\/p>\n

Chair, MDFDE\/Paris-NYC16 #MDFDEJeSuisLadyLiberty130-131<\/strong><\/p>\n

Links #MDFDEJeSuisLadyLiberty130: <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Who was Drew Pearson?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Andrew Russell “Drew” Pearson<\/b> (December 13, 1897 \u2013 September 1, 1969) was one of the best-known American columnists of his day, noted for his syndicated newspaper column \u201cWashington Merry-Go-Round,\u201d in which he attacked various public persons. He also had a program on NBC Radio entitled Drew Pearson Comments<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Early life and career<\/h2>\n

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Pearson was born in Evanston, Illinois; his parents were Paul Martin Pearson, an English professor at Northwestern University, and Edna Wolfe. When Pearson was 6 years of age, his father joined the faculty of Swarthmore College as professor of public speaking, and the family moved to Pennsylvania, joining the Society of Friends, with which the college was then affiliated. After being educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Pearson attended Swarthmore (1915\u201319), where he edited its student newspaper, The Phoenix<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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From 1919 to 1921, Pearson served with the American Friends Service Committee, directing postwar rebuilding operations in Pec, which at that time was part of Serbia. From 1921 to 1922, he lectured in geography at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

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In 1923 Pearson traveled to Japan, China, New Zealand, Australia, India, and Serbia, and persuaded several newspapers to buy articles about his travels. He was also commissioned by the American \u201cAround the World Syndicate\u201d to produce a set of interviews entitled \u201cEurope\u2019s Twelve Greatest Men.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From 1925 to 1928, Pearson continued reporting on international events, including strikes in China, the Geneva Naval Conference, the Pan-American Conference in Havana, and the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact in Paris.<\/p>\n

In 1929 he became the Washington correspondent for The Baltimore Sun<\/i>. However, in 1931 and 1932, with Robert S. Allen, he anonymously published a book called Washington Merry-Go-Round<\/i> and its sequel. When the Sun<\/i> discovered Pearson had co-authored these books, he was promptly fired. Late in 1932, Pearson and Allen secured a contract with the Scripps\u2013Howard syndicate, United Features, to syndicate a column called \u201cWashington Merry-Go-Round.\u201d It first appeared in Eleanor “Cissy” Patterson\u2019s Washington Herald<\/i> on November 17, 1932. But as World War II escalated in Europe, Pearson\u2019s strong support of Franklin D. Roosevelt, in opposition to Patterson and the Herald<\/i>\u2019s isolationist position, led to an acrimonious termination of Pearson\u2019s and Allen\u2019s contract with the Herald<\/i>. In 1941 The Washington Post<\/i> picked up the contract for the \u201cWashington Merry-Go-Round.\u201d<\/p>\n

Radio, film, and other media<\/h2>\n

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From 1935 to 1936, Allen and Pearson broadcast a 15-minute program twice a week on the Mutual Broadcasting System. They continued with a 30-minute music and news show, Listen America<\/i>, in 1939\u201340, ending this partnership in 1941. They also wrote a comic strip, Hap Hopper, Washington Correspondent<\/i>, which was drawn from 1939 to 1943 by Jack Sparling, and from 1943 onward by Al Plastino.<\/p>\n

Pearson continued alone on NBC with Drew Pearson Comments<\/i> from 1941 to 1953 for a variety of sponsors (Serutan, Nutrex, Lee Hats, Adam Hats). His commentary was broadcast through 1968 on the now-defunct Intermountain Network.<\/p>\n

In addition to radio, Pearson appeared in a number of Hollywood movies, such as the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/i> and RKO’s Betrayal from the East<\/i>, a World War II propaganda movie. In the former film, Pearson (playing himself) is the only journalist who urges calm and restraint (versus the fear and paranoia evoked by his colleagues) while Washington is panicked by the escape of the alien visitor Klaatu. In the latter movie, Pearson narrated, in his \u201cnow it can be told\u201d style, an alleged expose that accused Japanese Americans of being part of a Japanese conspiracy to engage in acts of terrorism and espionage. The movie was based on the 1943 best-selling book Betrayal from the East: The Inside Story of Japanese Spies in America<\/i> by Alan Hynd. Pearson also appeared as himself in City Across the River<\/i> (1949).<\/p>\n

In 1952 and 1953, Pearson hosted The Drew Pearson Show<\/i> on the ABC and DuMont networks.<\/p>\n

On a January 8, 1950, broadcast of CBS Radio\u2019s The Jack Benny Program<\/i>. Pearson was the subject of a joke gone wrong. Announcer Don Wilson was to say he heard Jack bought a new suit on Drew Pearson, but said Pearson\u2019s name wrong; Don said \u201cDrear Pewson.\u201d Later on in the show, comedic actor Frank Nelson was asked by Benny if he was the doorman. Changing the script, Nelson said, \u201cWell who do you think I am … Drear Pewson?” The audience laughed for almost 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

Washington Merry-Go-Round<\/h2>\n

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The “Washington Merry-Go-Round” column started as a result of the anonymous publication in 1931 of the book, Washington Merry-Go-Round<\/i> (New York: Horace Liveright and Co.), co-written with Robert S. Allen. The book was a collection of muckraking news items concerning key figures in public life that challenged the journalistic code of the day. In 1932 it was followed by a second book, More Merry-Go-Round<\/i>. Pearson and Allen were successful enough in their books to become co-authors of the syndicated column, the “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” that same year. Also in 1932, the original book was made into a film of the same name by Columbia Pictures, directed by James Cruze, and starring Lee Tracy and Constance Cummings.<\/p>\n

According to his one-time partner, Jack Anderson, Pearson saw journalism as a weapon to be used against those he judged to be working against the public interest. When forced to choose between a story’s accuracy and Pearson’s desire to pursue a person whose views he disliked, Pearson had no qualms about publishing the story anyway. In relating his disclosures on Washington politicians, newsmakers, and the politically connected, Pearson frequently resorted to a pattern of combining factual or corroborated leaked news items together with fabricated or unsubstantiated details, the latter designed to emphasize and sensationalize the basic story. Pearson’s method included paying waiters and chauffeurs to eavesdrop on their charges, gleaning information on politicians from political enemies, bribing a navy clerk to reveal classified data, or even ordering a subordinate to break into the desk of a prominent Washington attorney. A favorite Pearson tactic was to reveal salacious details of a subject’s sexual proclivities for the purpose of embarrassment or intimidation.<\/p>\n

During World War II, Pearson’s column not only revealed embarrassing news items, but expanded to criticize the Roosevelt administration’s conduct of the war, in particular U.S. foreign policy regarding Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. As a supporter of the Soviet Union’s struggle against Nazi Germany, Pearson demanded that the Allied Command create a second front in Europe in 1943 to assist the Soviets. When Pearson’s demands were not met, he began to openly criticize Secretary of State Cordell Hull, James Dunn, and other State Department officials, whom Pearson accused of hating Soviet Russia. After one of Pearson’s more virulent columns accused Secretary of State Hull and his deputies of a conscious policy to \u201cbleed Russia white,\u201d President Roosevelt convened a press conference in which he angrily accused Pearson of printing statements that were a lie “from beginning to end”, jeopardizing United Nations unity, and committing an act of bad faith towards his own nation. The president concluded his statement by calling Pearson \u201ca chronic liar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pearson was the first to report the 1943 incident of General George S. Patton’s slapping of soldier Charles Kuhl. Pearson, whose reputation had been severely damaged after President Roosvelt had publicly called him a “chronic liar”, wanted to settle scores with the Roosevelt administration. Ernest Cuneo, a friend of Pearson and an official of the Office of Strategic Services, suggested to Pearson that a sensational, exclusive news story would make people forget Roosevelt’s criticism. Cuneo offered Pearson details of General George S. Patton’s slapping of a private soldier, Charles Kuhl, which he had learned from others in the War Department. In typical Pearson style, the columnist\u2019s version of the slapping incident bore little relation to that of the actual event, conflated the details of two separate incidents involving Patton, and falsely claimed that General Patton would “not be used in important combat anymore.” Allied Headquarters denied that Patton had received either an official reprimand or a relief from combat duty, but confirmed that Patton had slapped a soldier with his gloves. Demands for Patton to be recalled and sent home soon arose in Congress as well as in newspaper articles and editorials across the country. However, public opinion was largely favorable to Patton. While Patton was later reassigned and his career advancement slowed, he was not relieved, but continued to serve in the European theater, where he would later command the famous U.S. Third Army. Pearson’s broadcast and subsequent article on Patton’s alleged behavior sufficiently raised the suspicions of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson that he requested Army General Joseph T. McNarney to \u201cput an inspector on the War Department to see who has been leaking out information. Pearson\u2019s articles are about three-quarters false but there\u2019s just a germ of truth in them that someone must have given him.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Pearson reported that General Douglas MacArthur was actively campaigning for his own promotion, MacArthur sued Pearson for defamation, but dropped the suit after Pearson threatened to publish love letters from MacArthur to his Eurasian paramour, Isabel Rosario Cooper.<\/p>\n

In 1943 Pearson hired David Karr, a disgraced former employee of the Office of War Information as his chief aide. That year, a U.S. Civil Service Commission hearing had concluded that Karr was both untruthful and unreliable. Karr earned a reputation as an unscrupulous investigative reporter who misrepresented himself to sources. In 1944, Karr, a supporter of far left political causes and a former employee of the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker,<\/i> became active in Vice President Henry Wallace’s effort to remain on the presidential ticket. Karr once obtained a confidential State Department report to President Roosevelt on Joseph Stalin by claiming to be on Vice President Wallace’s staff, and was the subject of two separate FBI espionage and loyalty investigations during the war.<\/p>\n

In 1945, Pearson hired Jack Anderson for the staff of his column, the “Merry-Go-Round”.<\/p>\n

Post-war activities<\/h2>\n

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Following World War II, Pearson was largely responsible for the “Friendship Train” which raised over 40 million dollars in aid for war-torn Europe. On December 18, 1947 the much-needed food, medicine, and supplies arrived in France.<\/p>\n

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20 D\u00e9cembre 1947 : D\u00e9barqu\u00e9 au Havre le 18 d\u00e9cembre 1947, arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 la Gare Saint-Lazare \u00e0 Paris du “Friendship Train”, le convoi du Train am\u00e9ricain de l’Amiti\u00e9, en pr\u00e9sence du journaliste Drew Pearson, cr\u00e9ateur du projet ; et de Pierre de Gaulle, pr\u00e9sident du Conseil municipal de Paris et conseiller g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la Seine, 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