PETAIN’S DEFENCE
ALWAYS BELIEVED IN BRITISH VICTORY UNESSENTIAL CONCESSIONS MADE TO GERMANS ’ (Rec. 11 a.m.) PARIS, August 14. Marshal Petain always believed in a British victory, said M. Payed resuming his summing up for the defence in the Petain trial to-day. Laval and his friends thought France after tlie armistice should go wholly over to the German side. . They believed a German victory was inevitable. That was not Petain’s view. Petain made unessential concessions to Germany and was horrified when he heard Laval’s German victory broadcast. M. Payen read a letter from M. Cotror, who held a high Vichy post, in which he stated that Petain was really lucid for only three to four hours daily, especially in the morning. It was possible to make Petain sign anything. Petain at this point made a gesture of denial with his head and hands.
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Evening Star, Issue 25563, 15 August 1945, Page 4
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