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Next day he was whisked to court as a witness in the treason trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. The testimony of another figure from France's dingy past had prepared...
Scorning a chair, but leaning on a cane, Weygand hammered at the prosecution's case. "I will accept from no one," he cried, "lessons in patriotism and honor. What is honor? To be steadfast and to speak the truth. . . . Nothing will induce me to call Pétain a traitor...
Cried bull-like ex-Premier Edouard Daladier, 61, who signed the Munich pact: "Pétain betrayed his duties and the charges of his office. . . ." (The sweating jurors sent for cooling drinks. Attendants brought them Vichy water...
Sobbed Albert Lebrun, 74, last President of the Third Republic: "I cannot understand how [Pétain] allowed himself ... to do such blameworthy things. . . . A warrior of France . . . risen so high to have fallen so low!" (A juryman demanded that the Marshal answer a question-"His honor is at stake!" Quavered the prisoner: "I heard nothing. I don't even know what's going on." Snapped Judge Mongibeaux: "I know perfectly well he hears...
...seek to excuse the old Marshal but let us have the courage to say 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...