"MONSTROUS TRIAL"

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1940, Page 8

"MONSTROUS TRIAL"

British Official Wireless.

• RIOM • COURT'S CHARGES

Rec., 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 9. De5crifc>ing the Vichy trial as having been - dehberately engineered, General de Gaulle in a -broadcast said the Vichy Government, acting under Herr Hitler's horsewhip and Signor Mussolini's lash, had the task of convincing the world that France was wrbng to enter the war. To this so-called Government people were criminals who believed France was threatened or thought France 6hoult'. fight well and those who resisted the dishonourable temptation of selling themselves into slavery without even drawing the sword. "Although in the whole world," General de Gaulle continued, "from Gibraltar to Kanchaka, from Magellan to Behring Straits, not a single person seriously doubts that those responsible for the war are the dictators of Berlin and Rome, yet a monstrous trial has been started in France against Frenchmen who are being prosecuted for this offence. This is a truly magnificent achievement— magnificent, let me hasten to add, for the enemy. "One day," General de Gaulle said in conclusion, "without a doubt there will be a real trial of the guilty party. There is every reason to believe that many of those who are now prosecuting would then be in the dock."