Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France Divided. In Paris debate raged. Screamed the Communist Humanite: Petain must die-"Pity would be a token of weakness." But others shook their heads over a trial for high treason which had become a trial of high politics. Said Author Georges Bernanos (Plea for Liberty) in Combat: "France is disgusted. . . ." Warned Lille's influential Voix du Nord: "The country remains divided, as it was after the Dreyfus case...
...Communist armies: they must take over the arms of all "enemy troops" in their zones of operation. They must also take over all "administrative matters in Japanese-and puppet-occupied cities, towns and communication centers. . . . Any sabotage and resistance against the above measures will be treated as treason...
...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...
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...
Weygand Testifies. To the crowded courtroom in the Palais de Justice, the Marshal's lawyers had summoned their star witness: ailing, emaciated General Maxime Weygand, 78, commander in chief of the French Army when it surrendered in 1940 and now under charge of high treason...