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...honor shining and renewed since his towering public stand against Vichy (TIME, Sept. 21), Edouard Herriot would not yield any small part of it. When the prefect of the Rhōne police department asked him, in his home, for "an engagement of your honor in writing" to stay in France, he refused...
Within 24 hours ten policemen were assigned to keep Edouard Herriot interned at his estate near Lyon. To Lyon, which Edouard Herriot had served 36 years as Mayor, the police looked like a guard of honor. When Berlin reported later that M. Herriot had been sent to a concentration camp at Vals-les-Bains, Vichy did not confirm it. Frenchmen hoped it was not true, felt that Vichy would not dare...
Onetime Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin broke his self-imposed silence to testify that France had had more trained officers than Germany. His statement was virtually the only one during the week which indicated that France had been in any way prepared for war. Onetime Premier Edouard Daladier countered with a quotation from a preface to a book, published in 1939, entitled Is an Invasion Still Possible? The preface was written by Marshal Pétain...
They used to call Edouard Daladier, in public, the "Bull of Vaucluse," while behind his back they muttered: "that cow of vacillation." They used to draw cartoons of Léon Blum shaking with fright at the gusty leftism released when his Popular Front swept the 1936 elections. But last week, at the "war guilt" trials in Riom, ex-Premier Daladier was no flabby trimmer, ex-Premier Blum no weakling...
...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...