FRENCH ADMIRAL GETS TEN YEARS’ HARD LABOUR
Versailles, March 14. A Parliamentary jury of 25 men in the High Court convicted Vice-Ad-miral Georges Robert, the 72-year-old High Commissioner for the French West Indies under the Vichy regime, of committing acts prejudicial to France’s interests and sentenced him to 10 years’ hard labour. The prosecutor told the Court that Robert could not be considered a traitor —he had saved French warships anchored in Martinique—but he was guilty of supporting Petain’s rise to power. In the course of the defence, Robert asked why he should not recognise the Vichy Government when America had done so, even sending Admiral Leahy to Vichy. The Exchange Telegraph agency's correspondent says it was Robert who refused to hand over the West Indies fleet to the Free French forces or to send the ships at Britain’s request to a neutral or American port.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 17 March 1947, Page 5
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