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"To the lamp post!"-the French Revolution's cry for summary justice-was heard again in modern form in France last week. Mild-mannered François de Menthon, French Minister of Justice, reported to the Consultative Assembly on the purge. Thus far, 60,000 prosecutions, 7,053 sentences...
"The Assembly regrets that its reiterated views regarding the purge . . . have not been taken into consideration. It puts on record that the Minister of Finance . . . has affirmed that it will not be so in the future. It withholds appropriations pending complementary explanations from the head of the Government."
The London Poles charged that: ¶Polish Communists, cooperating with the N.K.V.D. (Russian secret police), had organized special courts to purge "enemies of the people"-i.e., all political opponents of the Warsaw Government. ¶ The purge included the disarming and jailing of Home Army units, the execution of many of...
¶The purge also involved Poles east of the Curzon line. There, in territories annexed by the Russians, all Poles were being uprooted. Those who were loyal to Warsaw were sent to Poland. Those who were loyal to London were sent to Russia.
Useful Information. Doubtless Himmler could purge anyone in the Reich who got in his way, including Adolf Hitler, but he cannot purge the Allied armies now squeezing him on the east and west. What can he do? The answer is: hold out as long as possible, then go underground. As...