Qatar, Theresa May, Paris: Your Wednesday Briefing<br />According to Michaël Guittard, head of collections at the French Tennis Federation, the escape "was nothing short of an adventure movie." In an interview with The Times back<br />in France in 1918, Garros said, "Of course I am going back to the front." Garros was killed when his plane was shot down a few months later, a day before his 30th birthday.<br />Mr. Trump, on Twitter, accused Qatar of funding radical groups and seemed optimistic about the outcome: "Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!" Germany’s foreign minister warned<br />that "Trumpization" in the region could spur a new arms race.<br />_____ • President Trump took credit for prompting Saudi Arabia<br />and four other nations to break ties with Qatar, a critical U.S. military and intelligence partner.<br />[The New York Times] • An American aid coordinator kidnapped two years ago in Yemen was clandestinely helping the U.S. military.<br />We’ve just learned that Mr. Comey asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to leave him alone with President Trump.<br />[The New York Times] • We remember two very different men: Alois Mock, the former Austrian<br />foreign minister who literally helped tear down the Iron Curtain, died at 82.
