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degenerated into a mere struggle between lawyers for the
prosecution and the defense. The net result was that even
though in the midst of war, the drastic and adequate action
which should have been taken and which the public expected
to be taken was not taken. The present trial of Pétain
in Paris is similarly significant. The guilt of Pétain is
written in the secret history of Europe in the period before
MITH ARCHIVES "NATIONAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE RECORDS TRUMAN AND LIBRARY
and between the first world war and the second. The guilt
of Pétain is written in his own acts during the Vichy Government.
Whatever may be said or adduced as having been Pétain's inner
reactions can have no effect because it is his official acts
and the historical record which establish his guilt and his
treason to France. The only question which was really before
the court, or which should have been before the court, was
whether sentence of death or imprisonment for the rest of his
life should be passed on Pétain. Of the crime of treason to
the French Government I believe there is no doubt. The question
before the court was not that of guilt or of the crime, but of
the nature of the punishment, and now we read daily in the
press, to the horror of all the world, that the court has
degenerated into a stage set in which the principal character,
Pétain, keeps at least an honest and discreet silence, and
one
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