26 OCTOBER 1945, page 10

What, Essentially, Was The Charge Against Pierre Laval, A...

which, owing to his own subtle manoeuvring and the incompetence of the judge and jury, was not made apparent during his trial? He was not accused of personal dishonesty,......

Marginal ,comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON T is strange indeed that Pierre Laval, having for a quarter of a century infected French politics with the poisons of his own putrescence, should have......

I Have Been Reading This Week Some Of The Comments

passed by the Paris newspapers upon the confusion which arose. "Lava!," writes Libiration, "has been condemned to death ; and France feels ashamed. It was not Laval alone who......

* * * * Yet As The Cloud Of Venom

dissolves we can well discern the shape of the cuttle-fish. It was a horrible sight to see Pierre Laval • moving from group to group in the Paris Chamber of Deputies ; •......

Such Actions Could Not Have Been Explained Away As Mere

errors in political foresight ; they constituted definite acts conceived with the dual purpose of destroying the Republican constitution and using his resultant dictatorship for......