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...this the prosecution responded by producing Pétain's letter notifying Berlin of the appointment of Flandin-" . . . whose name alone will appear to be a guarantee of sincerity." Also submitted as damning evidence were newspaper articles written by Flandin during the occupation, among them a Paris Soir piece headlined: M. FLANDIN DECLARES FRANCE WAS PUSHED INTO WAR BY THE ENGLISH, PLUTOCRATS, JEWS AND MASONS...
...Churchills, Winston and Randolph, saved the day. Winston (by letter, read in court) said that he had always considered Flandin pro-Allied. Son Randolph (in person) said that he had talked with Flandin in North Africa, believed he was anti-German...
...hours' deliberation brought the French jury to a verdict of five years of "national indignity," entailing loss of civil rights. But for Flandin's apparent change of heart, the court suspended sentence. Upon this judgment, the left and center Paris press passed its own verdict: "shameful...
Pain and Passion. The Commissioner had understood: a veteran of France's underground, he knew that silence was the Assembly's rebuke to him, to General de Gaulle, to all administrative committeemen who for any reason had postponed the trials of such Vichymen as Pierre Etienne Flandin, Pierre Boisson. Fighting Frenchmen approached this question with the pain and passion of their long agony; they resented the patent fact that the U.S. and British Governments had interceded for some of the arrested men.* They reacted as Frenchmen have always reacted: the parliamentarians in the Consultative Assembly turned upon...
...Most notable recent arestees: Pierre Etienne Flandin, ex-Foreign Minster under Marshal Pétain; Marcel Peyrouton, ex-Minister of the Interior under Pétain; Pierre Boisson, turncoat Governor General of French West Africa, who fired on a joint British-Free French landing at Dakar...