Word: pozzo
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Convicted. Colonel Count François de la Rocque, Croix de Feu leader, of slander, for denouncing statements made by Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo as "maliciously false" (TIME. Nov. 8). Fine: 3,200 francs, trial costs...
...trial at Lyon was a suit in which one of the aristocratic original founders of the Croix de Feu, Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo, called M. Tardieu to bear witness that the Duke had spoken truly in making public accusations against Colonel de La Rocque which the colonel described in a speech as "maliciously false." The Duke took this charge as occasion to sue for slander, and the Lyon court was expected to give judgment next week...