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...Frenchmen focused their attention again on the Marshal's trial in the Palais de Justice...
...moral" necessity aimed at collaborationist profits). He calculated his two measures would yield revenues of 130 billion francs. He based his figures on a Government census of fortunes, in itself a radical departure from French financial tradition. Hitherto a passionate anonymity has shrouded the wealth of individual Frenchmen. The Government, said Minister Pleven, had discovered that France had 1,300 billion francs of national wealth in liquid form. His levies on wealth would siphon off 10% of this liquidity...
...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...
...that he did not inaugurate a policy but rather that he was the culmination of a policy. ... If we deserved to have Pétain, we deserved also, thank God, to have De Gaulle. The spirit of abandonment and the spirit of resistance-both are incarnated in Frenchmen, and these two spirits met in a duel of death. . . . Since the most modest among us shared the glory of the first resister, let us not shrink from the thought that a part of ourselves was an accomplice of that crushed...
...potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria's Pearl Harbor"). North Africa was restive. Like Frenchmen, Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians were still worried about the food shortage. Last year, arid Morocco had its worst drought since 1904. This year's crop will be sufficient only for seed. And Algeria, where bloody revolts were bloodily suppressed (TIME, May 28), was still hungry...