In 1947, he based the literary overview Caliban, adopted the pen identify Jean Daniel and was the editor till 1951. In 1948, with permission, he re
In 1947, he based the literary overview Caliban, adopted the pen identify Jean Daniel and was the editor till 1951. In 1948, with permission, he republished essays by Sartre, Camus and different intellectuals that had first appeared within the polemical journal Esprit. Camus wrote an introduction to Mr. Daniel’s first novel, “L’Erreur” (1953).
Mr. Daniel married Michèle Bancilhon in 1966. Along with his spouse, he’s survived by a daughter, Sara Daniel, a reporter at L’Obs.
Within the late 1950s, Benjamin C. Bradlee, a future govt editor of The Washington Publish who was then a correspondent in France for Newsweek, turned acquainted with Mr. Daniel by mutual contacts within the Algerian guerrilla group FLN. It was Mr. Bradlee, a longtime good friend of Kennedy’s, who steered Mr. Daniel when the president wanted a non-public go-between to hold his proposal to Castro in 1963.
In a gathering on the White Home, Kennedy requested Mr. Daniel to convey his view that improved relations had been potential, and that the president was prepared to authorize exploratory talks. Mr. Daniel met Castro in Havana on Nov. 19. He mentioned that Castro listened with “devouring and passionate curiosity” and expressed cautious approval of such talks.
Three days later, after studying that the president had been slain, Castro advised Mr. Daniel, “They should discover the murderer shortly, however in a short time, in any other case, you watch and see, I do know them, they are going to attempt to put the blame on us for this factor.”
After the announcement of Oswald’s arrest, Mr. Daniel recalled, “The phrase got here by, in impact, that the murderer was a younger man who was a member of the Honest Play for Cuba Committee, that he was an admirer of Fidel Castro.”
The Warren Fee’s investigation of the assassination concluded in 1964 that Oswald had acted alone in killing Kennedy and that Jack Ruby had acted alone in killing Oswald two days later. Its report has been challenged and defended over time.
The stalemate between Cuba and the USA, in the meantime, was continued by eight American presidents till Mr. Obama and President Raúl Castro, Fidel’s brother and successor, agreed on Dec. 17, 2014, to ascertain diplomatic relations, sweeping apart one of many final vestiges of the Chilly Struggle.
Fixed Mehéut contributed reporting.