[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.
[39] On January 15, 1942, at the Red Cross, "two days were observed in honor of foreign nations and People," Simard represented France.
[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.
[1] 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.
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.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.
Albert Simard , Chairman of the Executive Committee of FRANCE FOREVER, chairman of the meeting.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.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.
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."