Ex-Officer Stops Sale Of Petain's .Property
PARIS, Thu. (11 a.m.).— A former French cavalry officer tuday halted the sale of personal property belonging to the exiled 93-year-old Vichy chief, Marshal Petain, which the Government bad confiscated.
The action wat postponed when the tall, erect Marquis de Bellevab a veteran of both wars angrily sprang to his feet and shouted: "Stop the sale for the honour of France. It is a scandal. "The Marshal’s possessions should be nationally honoured. ‘‘He is a hero. “Vive Petain Most of the 500 people at the sale took up the chant of "Vive, Petain!’’ The auctioneer announced that the
sale would not go on. The only audible opponent to the Marquis shouted that he had spent years in a concentration camp under Petain’s Administration. Police did not interfere with the Marquis reply in favour of Petain, but when the excitement died down a detachment of 20 gendarmes shepherded the people into the street. Petain, now interned for life on the barren Atlantic island, He d’Yeu, was ] condemned to imprisonment and loss] & property; four years ego,
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Northern Advocate, 20 May 1949, Page 5
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