With the transference of M. Daladier to Riom, another French leader has been added to those already there awaiting their trial on charges of having plunged France into the war unfitted for the struggle. That and a number of other charges have already been preferred against various former French leaders. It is expected that these trials will lost for weeks, and are designed for two purposes, the first, to provide the Petain Government with a number of scapegoats, and the second, to please, if that is at all possible, their German and Italian conquerors. There is probably a third motive for them, and that is to provide a means of obtaining revenge on former political opponents. It is not a pleasing spectacle that the Vichy Government is apparently preparing for the delectation of the world, for it must be quite apparent that what they are in fact endeavouring to do is to cloak their own defect tion by seeking to place the blame for
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