Finding Madeleine
Dedicated to all who are unjustly held and to those who set them free.
“There’s no place like home.”
The character Dorothy Gale from the Wizard of Oz
Chapter 3: Sir Clement and Son
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read it, you’re misinformed.”
Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain
“Here’s the weird thing about the Murdoch [Fox News Corporation] family; they believe what they read in the papers.”
Matthew Freud
Clement Freud (b. 1924, knighted 1987, d. 2009) is Sigmund Freud’s grandson. Clement is a removed cousin of Edward Bernays through Sigmund’s mother. Edward Bernays was a propagandist for President Wilson for whom he coined the phrase “Make the Word Safe for Democracy” to promote Wilson’s desire to enter World War I on the side of England.
Clement was a witty and avuncular British celebrity chef, media personality, “raconteur” and bon vivant. Clement became much endeared to the British public through a series of dog food commercials in which he appeared with Henry, a droopy-eared and droopy-joweled hound he much resembled.
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