WAR GUILT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 7

WAR GUILT

Petain As Scapegoat

For Hitler

(Rec. 12.45 p.m.)

LONDON, August 18

Tlie refusal of the judges at the Riom war guilt trial to indict French statesmen and generals who were arrested last year is the reason for a decision by Marshal Petain to punish them himself without trial.

The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Herald" says that Hitler is insisting on severe sentences which he can exploit as his own exoneration of responsibility for the war.

The correspondent adds, "This inside story is surely one of the most scandalous Fascist measures Marshal Petain has announced."

the Associated Press of Amex*ica, the "Diplomatic Review" stated: "There is danger of an explosion of the worst eventualities in the east, west, south, and north simultaneously, the hostile nations closing up their encirclement

"These Powers are tightening their economic blockade, and Japan's existence is greatly threatened by their military position."

The Foreign Office has notified the foreign Embassies and Legations that all aliens must obtain the permission of the local governor before leaving Japan.

The order is effective immediately