DEATH SENTENCE DEMANDED
Rec. 11.20 a.m. PARIS, March 14.
Under examination today, Admiral Esteva declared that if he was acquitted he wished to work under the leadership of General de Gaulle "because he is the chief of the Government."
Asked how he judged Marshal Petain, Admiral Esteva replied: "He did everything he possibly could by dissimulation to spare France from German brutalities, which ended by showing themselves at Oradour-sur-Glane (France's Lidice)."
Asked what was his reaction when M. Blum assumed power in 1936, Esteva replied that as England had had a Disraeli, he thought it normal that France should have a Jewish Prime Minister.
The prosecutor demanded the death sentence.
sentence. He spoke for two hours before the court adjourned. He declared that this was an isolated part of a large trial involving Petain and Laval. "To lend oneself to supplying the Axis and to obtaining workers and recruiting fighters for the enemy and inciting our soldiers to desert constitute acts of treason," he said. "The laws of war are inflexible. When a soldier goes over to the enemy he is shot. Should we be more indulgent to a Resident-General? There is no justice but death for those who have accepted dishonour for France."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 63, 15 March 1945, Page 8
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