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...moment the spotlight shifted from the treason trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Pátain to his wife and the wife of Pierre Laval. In Paris' Cour de Justice, the two women, once among the French elite, now accused of "intelligence with the enemy," answered questions in a preliminary interrogation...
Infant Care & Agriculture. Said Madame Pátain: she had not mixed in the affairs of Vichy, had not even shared her husband's hotel there. In Spain she had not been friendly with Seãora France since the Seãora had not seen fit to return her first ceremonial visit. During the German occupation she had busied herself with good works, such as preparing lay ettes for indigent infants, bandage-rolling in hospitals open to all classes...
...have thought otherwise than that Germany would win the war?" . . . (The hoots swelled into a roar.) Screamed Laval: "I am not a Nazi. I am not a fascist. ... I hate war-even when we win, and we always lose. ... I love the republic. ... I resent being called Pétain's 'evil genius...
...murders of French patriots by Vichyminister Joseph Darnand's notorious "Blackbird" militia. He had denounced no one. In fact, he personally had saved ex-Premier Reynaud and Léon Blum from Gestapo execution. The prosecution confronted Laval with a letter he had written to Pétain: "... A few spectacular executions will prevent disorder and anarchy. . . ." Cried Laval: "I respect human life." (Searing laughter in the courtroom...
...Laval and Pétain...