Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were Socialist Blum's answers to charges that he sold out France to sit-down strikers and Communist intriguers. He had dealt with Communists, he said, because it was "impossible to defend republican ideals by excluding a large mass of the people." With a daring that made the courtroom gasp, he spoke of a Communist, recently a saboteur, "who often bitterly attacked...
...tough, stubborn Edouard Daladier, Premier when France went to war, who brought the rattle of tanks into the Riom courtroom. Accused with five others of responsibility for France's unpreparedness (TIME, March 2), Daladier would not be denied. France could have defended herself, said he. He had chapter & verse to prove...
...instead of weeks. The prosecution had 100,000 pages of testimony, planned to call more than 400 witnesses. What the final verdict would be, what past schemes and present deals would come to light, only time could tell. But it was painfully clear, outside as well as inside the courtroom, that, as Edouard Daladier had said, the trial was made to order for Nazi propagandists. Berlin claimed that evidence against Daladier proved an abortive plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...Government, out to slay a Fascist dragon, still had enough time to pop at field mice. In a Minneapolis courtroom the Department of Justice triumphantly snagged a nestful of mice: 18 Trotskyites convicted of advocating the overthrow of the Government. Only hope for the mice was in an appeal. They vowed they would take their squeaking case all the way to the Supreme Court...
...quite a show. Last week, in a vast, high-ceilinged courtroom in Brooklyn, the scene was thrown on the screen for the jury. Duquesne was there, in the prisoners' dock; he looked at himself on the screen with interest. His gestures, especially the one with the imaginary rifle, brought a snicker from the audience. The other 15 defendants (17 of the 33 had pleaded guilty) had no such stellar roles as the trial rolled on and the case, unlike the movie, slowly proceeded. The U.S. had not yet learned from the trial how effective Nazi espionage...