Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tain's Vichy Government). The public prosecutor was André Mornet, 75 (in World War I he sent Spy Mata Hari to the firing squad). The 24-man jury had been chosen half from the Resistance movement, half from non-collaborationist ex-parliamentarians. Behind the prisoner sat his counsel, his doctors and nurses, the witnesses (there would be about 50), the tightly packed reporters and spectators...
...Represented France." At week's end the prosecution had almost finished its case. This week, counsel for the defense will summon its witnesses. Few doubted that the case against the Marshal, the national need to repudiate a national humiliation, would end in the old man's condemnation. But for most Frenchmen the trial was embarrassing. Wrote Academician François Mauriac, a leader of the leftist Front National, in Figaro...
Moreover, as Snyder moved in, some of OWMR's ablest operators moved out. Vinson's fat, fast-thinking general counsel, Ed Prichard, would follow his boss to the Treasury; Don Russell, a Jimmy Byrnes protege who had handled much of the war production side, had gone with Byrnes to the State Department. Others were gone or going. Grey, bespectacled Boss Snyder would have to find a new staff...
Harry Truman agreed. He was never one of those who had sniped at Harry Hopkins for his disciple's relation to Roosevelt, his overwhelming influence in the "Palace Guard." Truman had continued to use Hopkins' knowledge and counsel. It was Hopkins, more than anyone else, who saved the San Francisco conference from a precipitous breakup (TIME, June 1). But Harry Truman also knew that Harry Hopkins would eventually leave. He wrote warmly in reply ("I know how much your tireless energy had to do with the carrying on of the war in all parts of the globe...
Into the State Department as a special assistant (and probably later as State's legal counsel), came quiet, unstuffy Benjamin Victor Cohen. This was a sweet morsel for both Byrnes and Cohen. After Dumbarton Oaks (which Ben Cohen had helped to draft), he had been slated for the State Department's top legal post. Despite Byrnes's insistence he had been blocked, had failed to get the support expected from Franklin Roosevelt. In deep disappointment, Ben Cohen had resigned but stayed in harness without Federal pay as Byrnes's general counsel in the Office...