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...Charge Dropped. The court was impressed. The prosecution was disturbed -the more so, when the defense followed with a letter written to Pétain by U.S. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. Marshal Pétain, said the former U.S. Ambassador to Vichy France, had often "expressed to me the fervent hope that the Nazi invaders would be destroyed. . . ." Suddenly Prosecutor André Mornet declared that he would no longer press the charge that the Marshal had plotted to defeat France. Hereafter, he would emphasize Pétain's record of collaboration after the Armistice...
Hotly the General denied the charge that Pétain had "plotted" France's defeat in order to seize personal power. He maintained that Pétain had secretly ordered cooperation with the Allies in North Africa. Testily he exchanged taunts with ex-Premier Paul Reynaud. If Pétain had erred, said Weygand, it was the fault of "his evil genius," Vichy's Chief of Government Pierre Laval...
Nonagenarian Marshal Pétain, who had dozed through much of the testimony in his behalf, suddenly sat up straight...
Laval sought to identify himself and Pétain as partners in collaboration. He admitted that he had broadcast to the nation: "I hope for a German victory." But that broadcast, he added, "was approved by the Marshal...
...tain rose stiffly from the dock...