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Albert Charles Joseph Simard
Bornca. 1891
France
DiedMay 2, 1973 (aged 82)
New York
NationalityFrench, American
OccupationPhysician
Known forActivism

Albert Charles Joseph Simard [Albert C. J. Simard] (ca. 1891 — May 2, 1973[1]) was a French-American medical doctor. He received the Legion of Honour. He was also active in many organizations before, during, and after World War II.

Biography

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Involvement in World War I (1914 – 1918)

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Serving in World War I,[2] Simard was seriously injured during the war[3] and was awarded with the Legion of Honour (Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur).[4][5]

Education and medical career (1918 – 1939)

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Dr. Simard received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1921.[1] In the same year, he authored there, the La réaction de fixation de l'alexine: son application au diagnostic sérologique de la peste,[6][7][8][9] "work of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, plague laboratory."[10] Simard continued at Pasteur Institute in the early 1930s.[11]

Simard then moved to New York around 1935[12] - 1936.[13] There, Dr. Simard was an endocrinologist,[14][15][16][17] as well as a fashionable gland specialist[18] in Manhattan.[19] He was a member of various medical associations, including: the American Geriatric Society, the Endocrine Society, the Academy-International of Medicine, the New York County Medical Society,[1] the Medical Society of the State of New York[20][1] and the American Medical Association.[1]

Involvement in World War II (1939 – 1945)

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In 1939, Simard was elected to head the Comité des Associations Françaises de New York - USA. That year the Second World War broke out.[16] At the time, Simard was "medical attache of the French consulate in New York City."[21]

In an April 1940 report, he appears as a "French civilian relief worker."[22] He was President of the French Societies of New York.[23][24] Described by famed professor Fred G. Hoffherr as: "one of the leaders of the French colony."[25] Simard was President of the Federation of French War Veterans of the World War.[24][25]

In 1940, Simard was one of the founders of France Forever.[5][26][27][4][28][29] It was founded on June 29 in his apartment.[18][30]

Following Charles de Gaulle's appeal on 18 June 1940, on 29 June, Simard, called a public meeting to launch a support movement.[31][32] Stating:[33][34]

We are convinced that France and all enslaved European democracies can be freed only by British victory and that a German victory over Britain will be the signal for an attack on all of the Americas.

In the November 1940 protest against Vichy anti-Jewish legislation, as vice president of France Forever, he addressed the rally, reading a message of support de Gaulle had sent.[35][36][37] From being vice president,[38] following Richard de Rochemont,[3] Simard would later serve as its President, Chairman of the executive committee,[24] of sessions.[39]

On January 15, 1942, at the Red Cross, "two days were observed in honor of foreign nations and People," Simard represented France. At the Allied Day event, he "spoke on the goal of the Free French Movement," and for the Red Cross.[40]

Later life and death (1946 – 1973)

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Simard would later become involved with the Society for the Prevention of World War III,[41] serving as its Secretary.[42][43][44][45][46][47][48]

In March 1946, Simard reviewed Erich Maria Remarque's Arch of Triumph in Free World.[49]

On October 9, 1946, an exhibit "France Comes Back," opened in New York in the Museum of Natural History, under Simard activities.[24] Among those involved in the exhibit, was author historian Gilbert Chinard.

The first annual French-American friendship dinner was held on April 29, 1956 at Waldorf-Astoria, with 300 guests present. Simard was chairman of the dinner committee and one of its speakers.[23]

In the 1950s, Simard was also active in the Union for the Protection of the Human Person, founded by Boris Gourevitch.[50][51] In 1955, he wrote a short biography on Gourevitch in his book.[52]

Dr. Simard died in New York, on May 2, 1973, at the age of 82.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f New York State Journal of Medicine. (1973). United States: Medical Society of the State of New York. p. 2918. [1] [2].
  2. ^ Paris Médical. Vol. 24. France: n.p., 1917. p.40. M. SIMARD (Albert Charles - Joseph), 61 ° rég. d'artillerie (dépôt).
  3. ^ a b Revue de la France libre, Revue No. 240, 1982. Fondation de la France libre.
  4. ^ a b A Nation-Wide Organization, Maison Francaise. [3] (PDF)
  5. ^ a b Congress, United States (1941). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 344.
  6. ^ Simard, Albert Charles Joseph (1921). La réaction de fixation de l'alexine: son application au diagnostic sérologique de la peste (in French). Maloine. (Faculté de Médecine de Paris, vol. 483)
  7. ^ Paris, Office international d'hygiène publique (1921). Bulletin mensuel (in French). Office international d'hygiène publique. p. 964.
  8. ^ Medicine (U.S.), National Library of (1955). National Library of Medicine Catalog. Judd & Detweiler. p. 357.
  9. ^ Medicine (U.S.), National Library of (1972). Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army: Authors and subjects. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 630.
  10. ^ Catalogue des thèses de doctorat soutenues devant les universités françaises (in French). Université de Paris I, Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne. 1925. p. 491.
  11. ^ Payot, N.-G. (1933). Être belle (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. p. 21.
  12. ^ [In 1934, still listed, as in Paris -] France (1934). Journal officiel de la République française (in French). p. 12741.
  13. ^ [By 1937, listed in NY - ]The New York Medical Week. Medical Society of the County of New York. 1937. p. 7.
  14. ^ Endocrinology. Association for the Study of Internal Secretions. 1945. p. 66.
  15. ^ Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York Academy of Sciences. 1953. p. 35.
  16. ^ a b Comité des Associations Françaises de New York - USA, cafusa.org.
    In 1939, Albert Simard, doctor of medicine, was elected. That year the Second World War broke out. And this is the drama of 1940!
  17. ^ Lukas, Mary; Lukas, Ellen (1977). Teilhard: A Biography. Collins. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-00-211846-0.
  18. ^ a b "FRANCE: Troubled Exiles". Time. 1941-03-10. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2022-09-30.

    France Forever was founded last June 29, eight days after the Franco-German Armistice, in the Manhattan apartment of Dr. Albert C. J. Simard, fashionable gland specialist and then president of the French War Veterans in the U. S. Other founders were General de Gaulle's representative, Jacques de Sieyes, who is president of Patou (perfume); Maurice Garreau-Dombasle, longtime French commercial attaché in Washington; Captain Roger Etienne Brunschwig, founder of the French "Broken Faces"; Frédéric G. Hoffherr, Barnard and Columbia professor, who became France Forever's publicity director. France Forever is General de Gaulle's agency in the U. S., expects to attain Embassy status if Unoccupied France is ever taken over by Germany.
  19. ^ Lehrer, Steven (2013-09-13). Wartime Sites in Paris: 1939-1945. SF Tafel Publishers. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-4922-9292-0.
  20. ^ New York State Journal of Medicine. Vol. 68, pt 1, (1968). United States: Medical Society of the State of New York. p. 85
  21. ^ The Pacific Coast Journal of Homeopathy. 1939. p. 540.
  22. ^ "The Jackson Sun from Jackson, Tennessee on April 12, 1940 · 4". Newspapers.com. 12 April 1940. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  23. ^ a b Congress, United States (1956). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 4307.
  24. ^ a b c d Year Book. United States: France Forever, Inc., 1946. pp. 134, 137.

    Chairman of the executive committee. Past president of the Federation of French War Veterans of the World War. Past president of the French Society of New York.
  25. ^ a b Hoffherr, Fred G., Columbia Profs Support de Gaulle and "France Quand Meme", March 7, 1941, Columbia Alumni News.
  26. ^ Kaspi, André (1971). La Mission de Jean Monnet à Alger, mars-octobre 1943 ... (in French). Editions Richelieu. p. 230.
  27. ^ "Le comité de la France Libre des États-Unis - Fondation de la France Libre" (in French). 2009-11-10. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  28. ^ Congress, United States (1951). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 2815.
  29. ^ Free France. French Press & Information Service. 1942. p. 115.
  30. ^ "Clipped From The Philadelphia Inquirer". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1962-07-19. p. 31. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  31. ^ Nettlebeck, Colin. Forever French: Exile in the United States, 1939-1945. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic, 1991. 6.

    It was among the permanent or long-term expatriates that moves to organise French resistance and recovery were first initiated, following de Gaulle's appeal on 18 June 1940. As early as 29 June, Dr Albert Simard, who was president of the French Veterans of the Great War, and also of the Associated French Societies of New York, called a public meeting to launch a support movement.
  32. ^ White, Dorothy Shipley. Seeds of Discord. United States: Syracuse University Press, 1964. 116.

    On June twenty-ninth, at the request of Dr. Albert Simard, then president of the French War Veterans, twenty-nine Frenchmen prominent in business, industry, science, art, and education, met at Hampshire House, New York.
  33. ^ Mahl, Thomas E.. Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44. United States: Potomac Books, Incorporated, 2000. [4].
  34. ^ Wallace, Robert., Melton, Harold Keith. Spy Sites of Philadelphia: A Guide to the Region's Secret History. United States: Georgetown University Press, 2021. 114.
  35. ^ ""Le Général et les Juifs : un mauvais procès", par François Broche". Fondation Charles de Gaulle (in French). 2021-10-20. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
  36. ^ "Jewish Post 22 November 1940 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program". newspapers.library.in.gov. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  37. ^ "De Gaulle Pledges Restoration of Jewish Rights in France". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 20 March 2015. Retrieved 2022-09-30.

    "Be assured that since we have repudiated everything that has falsely been done in the name of France after June 23 the cruel decrees directed against French Jews can, and will, have no validity in free France. These measures are not less a blow against the honor of France than they are an injustice against her Jewish citizens. When we shall have achieved victory, not only will the wrongs done in France itself be righted, but France will once again resume her traditional place as a protagonist of freedom and justice for all men, irrespective of race or religion, in a new Europe."
  38. ^ Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1943). A Selection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Addresses ... France Forever. p. 3.
  39. ^ Resistance Liberation. United States: France forever, 1944.

    Dr. Albert Simard, président du Comité Executif de FRANCE FOREVER, président de séance. Dr. Albert Simard , Chairman of the Executive Committee of FRANCE FOREVER, chairman of the meeting.
  40. ^ "Viewing page 21 of 96 | Smithsonian Digital Volunteers". transcription.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-04. Vol. 24. No. 5 New York, Monday, February, 1942 (Ten Pages), p. 3. "Representatives of Allied Nations Visit Red Cross Center. Two Days Observed In Honor Of Foreign Nations And People." Red Cross War Fund... "France: Dr. Albert Simard, Vice President of France Forever; Mr. V. Hesselm Editor-in-Chief "Pour la Victoire.""
  41. ^ Murray, James Edward. Importance of United Public Opinion on Public Issues: Remarks of Hon. James E. Murray, of Montana, in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, May 16, 1951 .... United States: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951. 4.

    Society for the Prevention of World War III... Dr. Albert Simard, a founder and leader of that powerful arm of French resistance during the Nazi occupation, France Forever.
  42. ^ Prevent World War III.. United States: Society for Prevention of World War III, 1969. [5].
  43. ^ Prevent World War III, cia.gov
  44. ^ Antiwar Group Warns Public of PLO Leader Shukairy. The Detroit Jewish News, February 3, 1967. Page 9.

    In a letter to the editor published in Wednesday's New York Times, Dr. Albert Simard, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of World War Three warns of the "dangerous" background and activities of Ahmad Shukairy, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization who, he said, had expressed hatred of the West.

    Recalling the pro-Hitler activities "highest levels of government" of Shukairy when he was associated with the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
  45. ^ Shukeiri poses a danger to world peace... Dr. Albert Simard, Secretary of the "Third World War Prevention Association" mentioned Shukeiri's activities for Hitler, when he was connected to the Jerusalem Mufti., (HaTzofe, Feb 2, 1967)
  46. ^ Nazi Expert on Anti-jewish Legislation to Visit U.S.; Protest Voiced, JTA, Feb 21, 1957.
    The appeal was made in a letter to Mr. Dulles from the Society for the Prevention of World War III, which declared that Globke’s visit late this month would be “an affront to the American people which could damage our prestige in the eyes of millions of victims of Nazism.”

    The Adenauer Government announced plans last week for the visit of the Bonn official, who was accused by the Society of possession of a "notorious Nazi record." Albert Simard, secretary of the Society, said the letter to Mr. Dulles had been sent to a number of Senators and Representatives.

  47. ^ Hearings. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. 1958. p. 197. [6].
  48. ^ Congress, United States. Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959. pp.7639-40
  49. ^ Simard, Albert C.J., "Nothing quiet..." Arch of Triumph, by Erich Maria Remarque. Free World, March 1946, pp. 72-73.
  50. ^ Yearbook of International Organizations. Union of International Associations. 1951. p. 444.
  51. ^ Inc, Union for the Protection of the Human Person by International Social and Economic Co-operation (1957). The Significance of the Book, The Road to Peace and to Moral Democracy, by Boris Gourevitch. p. 62. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  52. ^ Gourevitch, Boris (1955). The Road to Peace and to Moral Democracy: An Encyclopedia of Peace. International Universities Press. p. 10. "Note on the Author by Dr. Albert Simard."
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