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...This was enough to start on. A few miles from the chateau, at the little old market and court town of Riom, the new French Supreme Court through Special Attorney Gaston Cassagnau asked for two more indictments. Cited were Edouard Daladier, "strong-man" wartime Premier, and General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, who believed in the Maginot Line. Wording of the indictments was not divulged, because part of the seven-man court itself examines evidence and brings or dismisses charges, and presumably the evidence against Daladier and Gamelin had not been digested. But it meant that with seven big Frenchmen either under...
...teau Chazeron there awaited him the same medieval accommodations as had greeted onetime Premier Daladier, ex-Generalissimo Gamelin, ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel, former Minister of Interior, and hulking, scholarly onetime Premier Léon Blum of the Popular Front...
...Gamelin, who dropped from sight after being succeeded by General Maxime Weygand, was the most active of all. Rumor had had him executed, dead by suicide or fleeing the country to save his skin. Actually he had been tending the rose garden at his home near Paris and showed up to give a certain zip to the dullness of the chateau's life. Briskly he did daily setting-up exercises, snappily returned the salutes he rates from the soldiers who guard...
Both the leaders of France during the thirties and the main movements within the country will be analyzed. Such men as Laval, Barthou and Gamelin, such movements as the Blum government and the internal disunity of the country, will be under discussion...
From Morocco onetime Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel last week flew to Vichy to surrender. He was clapped into bleak Château Chazeron with his fellow scapegoats, onetime Premiers Paul Reynaud and Edouard Daladier, former Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin. Cagey little sword-nosed Mandel for years kept a dossier on the misdemeanors of all high personages in France, and the Riom War Guilt Court would like to have this even more than his person...