Word: edouarde
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Heavy with dramatic overtones, the trial opened in the beige and dark oak Salle d'Assises, where watchmen at night saw the ghosts of the profligate Dukes of Berry and Bourbon, lingering on from the Middle Ages. The accused were two for mer Premiers, Edouard Daladier and Leon Blum, the once-great Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Air Minister Guy La Chambre* and a controller general of a once-great Army, Pierre Jaco-met. The accusation originally had been that they led France to war, but now the Vichy Government had watered down the charge to "betrayal of duties...
...Whom Betrayed? With the voice of one still addressing the Chamber of Deputies, Edouard Daladier continued the counterattack. He appeared, "not as a man accused, but as a man already condemned-but we shall make it clear where treason lurked and by whom France was betrayed." This was a threat which Daladier followed by quoting German speeches to prove that the Axis demanded the trial for propaganda purposes. Disturbed, the court threatened to hold further sessions in camera, next day adjourned for the weekend...
...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...
BERLIN (Recorded by UP)--The official news agency, DNB, said today that a plan to murder Adolf Hitler and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop had been found among the personal documents of Edouard Daladier, former French Premier...
...Baltimore Museum by the No. 1 Cassatt expert, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, the show contained 156 of Mary Cassatt's finest oils, pastels, dry points, color prints and drawings, surrounded with side shows of letters, photographs and paintings by such famed Cassatt contemporaries as Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir. For Mary Cassatt, who went to Europe in 1868 to study art, lived there the rest of her long life, an expatriate American, never got full recognition from either France...