PICTURE OF DE GAULLE
Marshal Petain’s Request LONDON, April 27. Marshal Petain’s first request after entering his room at Fort Montrouge near Paris, was for a picture of General de Gaulle, says the Paris correspondent of the Associated Press. The policemen guarding him gaped with surprise, but obtained a photograph. Mme. Petain chose to remain with her husband. They were placed in a small room with two beds, chairs and a desk. The room overlooks the courtyard, where persons found guilty by the purge courts were executed. There are 15 armed guards in the corridor outside the room, and the stairway from the ground floor and the fort’s grounds are heavily patrolled. All the gates ere guarded. Marshal Petain appears to be in excellent health. His manner is almost jocular. F'ormer Vichy officials—General Jean Deoeney and Admiral Leon Plehaulet—accompanied him, and two nurses attended him, although he insisted that he did not need them.
High Court officials read to Marshal Petain the charges against him when he crossed the Swiss frontier.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23188, 30 April 1945, Page 7
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