GREEK COLLABORATION TRIALS
SITTING OF COURT SUSPENDED
(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 25. The sitting of the Court which is trying 22 Greeks, including the former Prime Minister, Rallis, on charges of collaboration, has been suspended. There were further disturbances when counsel for the defence threatened to withdraw after the presiding judge had declined to accept further submissions regarding the legality of the trials.
“After .three hours of deliberation in camera the Court declared this afternoon that the trials were valid,” says Reuter’s Athens correspondent. “Pandemonium in the Courtroom brought the trials to an abrupt end on Thursday,” said Reuter’s correspondent in an earlier message. “The former Prime Minister, Rallis, sharply contested the Court’s authority to try him, and declared that if he told the whole story of recent Greek history ‘others would be in the dock, not us.’"
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24501, 26 February 1945, Page 6
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