Qatar, Theresa May, Paris: Your Wednesday Briefing 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 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. 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 that "Trumpization" in the region could spur a new arms race. _____ • President Trump took credit for prompting Saudi Arabia and four other nations to break ties with Qatar, a critical U.S. military and intelligence partner. [The New York Times] • An American aid coordinator kidnapped two years ago in Yemen was clandestinely helping the U.S. military. We’ve just learned that Mr. Comey asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to leave him alone with President Trump. [The New York Times] • We remember two very different men: Alois Mock, the former Austrian foreign minister who literally helped tear down the Iron Curtain, died at 82.
