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ON TRIAL
Back to France an old, old man hna made his way from
Germany to face charges of treason and collaboration, lie is
Marshal" Henri Philippe Petain. He was spirited away from
France by the Germans while the allied invasion was in
progress, presumably as a hostage. Whether he made his es
cape or whether he was released when it became apparent that
his trading value was gone, is not clear. At all events he has
returned to De present at tne trial wnicn omei wise wumu
have been conducted in absentia. v
It is natural that the name of any member Of the yiehy
government, which Marshal Petain headed, should be anath
ema in France today. The Vichy government, to a very large
extent, was the instrument of the German conquerors. It was
so regarded by the world at large and by the people of France
as the years of their captivity wore on. It is from this, un
questionably, that the charges against Marshal Petain stem.
the emotions which prompt the charges are immediately
understandable. The facts are yet to be brought forth.
' The major accusation against the man who commanded
the Frenph troops in their successful resistance at Verdun in
the first world war js that of treason, specifically in wir-
rendering France to the Germans in world war II. The
record on this is not too convincing. It was in June of 1940
that the surrender was made. The French were already de
feated. Their country was being penetrated at will by Ger
man armored columns. One ally, Belgium, had capitulated ;
another ally, Britain, had been driven out at Dunkerque. Ef
fective air power was all but non-existent against the scourg
ing attacks of the German Stukas. A succession of French
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commanders nau iitneu to chhiik uiu picture ui insurer.
Italy declared war, threatening to join in the attack against
a country already doomed.
The French government had decided to ask an armistice,
which could be considered only as the forerunner to sur
render. Premier Paul Reynaud would not agree. He was
removed and Marshal Petain was named in his place to per
form the tragic task, doubly tragic to one of his soldierly
achievements, of officially giving up the fight. Marshal Petain
was then 84 years old. He performed his bitter task the day
after he was 'made premier, announcing to the nation the
government's decision.
There followed the humiliating scene when the German
' terms were given, the signing of the German armistice,
which, however, did not become effective until France ha'd
signed, two days later, a separate armistice with Italy, which:
by then, had actually been at war with France for four days
The official surrender came four months later, in October, but
in actuality France surrendered in June.
For this, Marshal Petain is charged with treason. There
may be evidence, as yet undisclosed, to substantiate the
charge. But at this distance and in the light of the facts
generally known, it would be more to the point to say that
the accused's only offense at the time was in agreeing to
deliver a message which the government had decided must be
delivered.
Alleged collaboration, it may be assumed, is dated by the
period in which, Marshal Petaihwas chief of the French
state (no longer the republic of France). It has always been
our feeling that he accepted the dubious position of head of the
Vichy government, as he accepted the assignment of an
nouncing the French surrender, with the thought that some
service might still be performed tor France. Certain it is that,
in the beginning, he endeavored to cushion against the harsh
German rule. It is equally certain that his judgment was by
no means infallible. It is well to remember that there were
able and, venal collaborationists in. the Vichv lrovornment.
Against such as Pierre Laval, the aging marshal of France
could do little..
And he was aging rapidly. In his last year as chief of stale
his public utterances showed a progressive deterioration of
initiative, liy tnen, it seems, he was being put to collabora
tionist uses, but it is easy to believe that the words which
issued from the mouth of old Marshal Petain were not his
words and that the thoughts which they conveyed were not his
thoughts.
As he prepares for his trial, Henri Philippe Petain is 8!)
winters old. If he is convicted, on the evidence, of the charges
preferred against him, his latter years will be years of shame
which will eclipse the brightness of so short a lime before. If
he is acquitted the world may remember the hero of Verdun
and forget the days of failure.
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VII
Spring brought open roads, and
travelers. .
A good many of these were
drummers, who either drove their
own horses from place to place or
hired transportation from the liv
ery stables along their route.
Those who sold standard stock
were only a few hours in each
village, while those who had sam
ples to display stayed longer.
There was hardly a night that we
didn'thave one or more of them
registered at the American House.
A few were, undeniably, soorty.
They made us feel countrified and
n -little prim. Mr. J. iFrancis
Simms wore i very high laced
shoes, tight trousers, and a ruby
ring, rie Kept up smart talk in
sets. Up- to the time she came,
women had purchased such things
by mail order, having, of course,
too much delicacy to ask for them
at a store. But mall order wasn't
entirely satisfactory, for a corset
every purchase of. 12.
By the time he moved on, the
town shone and bristled with
rods. .. ,
The very next week another
young fellow ca'me selling fire in
surance. He had less chance than
a bolt of lightning. The danger
was over, people told him. You
could always handle a chimney
fire yourself with a little salt.
He was a nice young fellow
with very red cheeks and an in-
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wuyi, ,t lime, iuw, uiu uai- ,iu,A J,lll, U u J ,
Ten yT tOTihJWKS jShSrt
My father couldn't resist a
beaten, dishearted boy. He took
out a $2500 policy on the Ameri
can House.
"It might come in handy some
dav," he said. :
. (To Be Continued)
umce. &o Mrs. uarter, being a
married woman and bringing her
wares (which you could carry
home in your Boston bag), had
quite a following. The greatest
detterent to her trade lay in the
undeniable fact that her custom
ers might be seen and detected.
She owed a great deal of her
business to my mother. Instead
of openly approaching the parlor.
one customer after another would
Come to think of it, the minis cwilti have picked no more
fitting place for their final stand than a tiergarten.
Bend's Yesterdays
I'H'TKKN YEARS Ai()
(April 30, 1!)30)
Announcement is made thai 1
more than 1,001) Bend children will j
take part in "health day" exercises '
Mrut, Butter, Cheese: Book 4--Iled
stamps Y5 through HI! valid
through June 2; 102 through J2
valid through June .10; K2
through I'2 valid through July 31;
Q2, H2, S2, T2 and V2 valid May
1 through Aug. 31.
Sugar: Ito;k 1 Sugar stamp 35
proclaimed by President I louver. valul through June 2. Stamp 30
The J'.WO census shows Madras vaiiu may l iiiniugh Aug. 31.
has a population of 200 persons. Shoes: Loose stamps Invalid
Hauling of water Into the Kort i Book 3 -Airplane stamps 1-2-3
Rock district makes it possible i now valid. New shoe stamp to be
to graze 18,2.10 sheep in the dis-1 come valid Aug. 1.
trlet, according to forest service! wHm: Coupons not valid un
official. I less endorsed. "A" l.'i columns I
is. Kred S. Simpson 'K"1- each, valid through June 21.
a three weeks' trip j "H" 0 7 valid, 5 gal. each. "C" 0-7
the dining room, even in the face come into the office, ostensibly to
of Ada's discouragement. "Ain't make a call. "I've been intending
It awful, Mabel?" he said over to come and see you ever since
Mini over. m i it-awiui.' - Mr.
Benjamin Wiggle was very fat
and awlays smelled of SenSen.
"Wiggle's my name," he would
say in Introduction and then pro
ceed to demonstrate in a way you
could never forget.
However, most of the men who
came were sensible and industri
ous. Keeling sorry for anyone
who had to be away from home.
my mother went out of her way
to make them comfortable.
The first and third Saturdays
of every month brought Dr. Bill
ings, the dentist from the Junc
tion. In his regular office he had
an upholstered chair that tipped
backward, but if you came to him
in the parlor of the American
House you had to content your
self with the organ stool borrow
ed from the church vestry. You
almost never had a tooth filled.
You had it out, or you put up with
it, one way or the other. If you
needed gas, my father gave it in
his office. This happened very
rarely. Oas cost money, as we
saw it. Crii was cheap.
On alternating Saturdays Dr.
Snow, the oculist, took over the
parlor. You cot:!;! buy vour glass
es" ready-made from him for 25
cents, or ir you were more par
ticular (and prepared to pay a
dollar) you could have a n:iii-
made to your special order with a
10-year, gold filled rrame.
Only one other person "seil ih
parlor for business. That was
Mrs. Carrie Carter, who sold cor-
Mr. and Mr
return from
to California.
TWKNTY I'lVK YKAItS AtiO !
(April 30, lOai) I
Chief of police Nixon reports
the seizure of n large nuantity
of homebrew heer on Cilchrlsl
avenue, arresting two men.
At an elect Inn, Clean Hindi,
sophomore, Is named president
of the Bend high school body.
II. J. Overturf of Bend, predicts
that Denton G. Bunlick of Red
mond will be reelected to the
state legislature.
John Billups of Madras, Is
spending the day in liend.
Ration Calendar
Professed I-'ootls: Book -1 nine
stamps 112 through M2 valid
through June 2; N2 through S2
valid through June 30:T2 thmin'li
X2 valid through Julv 31; Y2, Z2
Al. Bl and CI valid May 1
through Aug. 31
valid, r gal. each.
Sioves: Apply local hoard for
oil. gas stove certificates.
Wood,- mil, Sawdust: Dealer
delermines delivery priority trout
consumer's written statement of
annual needs and quantity on
hand.
l-ui'l Oil: Period 1 5 coupons
valid through August .11.
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you moved," they might say. Or
It nas taken me long enough to
get here." Then, a brief visit over,
they would announce in a casual
manner, that, now they were here,
they might stop for a minute in
the parlor and just say hello to
Mrs. Carter.
a
Mrs. Carter knew her trade. She
measured her customers in a
white cheesecloth robe with long
flowing sleeves which gave the
illusion of modesty and grace.
She had technical names for j
every spot on your anatomy.
"Your mammary glands need a
slight support," she would say. Or I
'lnore Is a little dilatation of
your abdomen." She was very
patient. The Kangarboo Bend was '
outmoded in 1909, and the new j
lines demanded a corset with a :
low bust and a long skirt. It !
wasn't an easy change. She had
H little song she used to sing to
cheer her Disgruntled customers.
It went something like this:
"I do not need a country seat,
Because I can't sit down."
There were Itinerants, too, most
of them agents and peddlers.
Around the first of June .a young
man arrived selling lightning
rods. Now we had plenty of thun
derstorms along the coast, bad
ones that lasted until the turn of
the tide. Hardly a season passed
without a farm house or a barn
being struck and burned to the
ground. Although nearly all build
ings were equipped with one or
two lightning rods, these were of
the plain, practical variety, con
structed by Mr. Giddings. The
ones the young man sold were
ornate with fancy turnings and
Impressive with their shining sil
ver balls. Moreover, ho gave a
Magic Lantern entirely free with
Research workers of the depart
ment of agriculture say potatoes
boiled in their jackets lose only
half as much ascorbic acid and
only one-third as much thiamine
as baked potatoes.
Washington
Column
By Peter Edson
(lUspwmsBjjoo JJ1S V3N1
Washington, D. C Where the
department of state gets on and
off In the present misunderstand
ing with the senate foreign rela
tion committee over post-war in
ternational aviation treaties and
executive agreements is a little involved.
An effort has been made to
hang the blame for the whole bus
iness oh Adolf Berle, former as
sistant secretary of state and
chairman of the 54-nation confer
ence on civil aviation held at Chi
cago last fall.
But an equally strong case can
be made to show that the senate
is at fault: first through a law
that can be interpreted two ways;
second because the two senate
delegates to the Chicago confer
ence weren't on the job; third be
cause several senators in key po
sitions gave loose permission to
the department of state to go
ahead with the executive agree
ments and now wish they hadn t.
I he whole thine has been kicked
around. Berle s part goes back to
January, 1944, when he was put
in charge of the international
communication and transporta
tion divisions of the department
of stated The president and Sec
retary Hull were too busy with
the war, so Berle had clear tracks i
and lines, and he went ahead to
shape a post-war aviation policy
for the United States.
Berle' formed an inter-departmental
committee with represen
tatives of CAB, commerce war,
navy and other interested agen
cies in Washington. In March he
went to London to talk things
over with Lord Beaverbrook, his
opposite number in the British
government. In July Beaverbrook
came to Washington. There were
otner conferences with represen
tatives of nearly a dozen coun
tries. What was said is a closed
book, but out of these confer
ences came the state department
policy and the plan for the inter
national conference which finally
opened in Chicago Nov. 1. j
A special senate committee un
der ex-Sen. Bennett Clark tried to
stop any commitments, pending
senate approval, but couldn't
make it stick. People who don t
like Berle or what came out of
the Chicago conference say he
swallowed what had been British
policy for the last 20 years and
even gave the British more than,
they asked for, after which they
put up a show of reluctant ac
ceptance. !
But there are just as many
people who say Berle did a grand
job, traded and maneuvered the
British out of their scheme to
control world aviation, and won
a lot of new rights for U. S. post
war aviation. I
Take your pick. Only time and
actual experience will prove
which is right. ,
Arbor Day Rites
Held by Legion
PrineviUe, April 30 (Special)
Sponsored by the American Le
gian auxiliary, Arbor day rites
were observed Friday by planting
a memorial tree on the grade
school lawn, in honor of the late
Guy E. Powell, a former com
mander of American Legion post
No. 29.
After introductory remarks by
Remey Cox, a member of the Le
gion post, the tree was dedicated
by Mrs. Percy R. Smith, president
of the auxiliary.
The tree was furnished by the
Ochocp forest staff and cere
monies were attended : by mem
bers of the Legion, the auxiliary
and upper grade pupils of the
..nnl rTho mlnilR flirnlRVioH f,
musical numbers directed by Mrs,
Mary Lou Straughn. ;
Since D-day, U. S. army ord
nance men have repaired more
tanks, armored cars, half-tracks,
trucks, and trailers than battle
losses for all U. S. forces.
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cooperation. Come in any time. All personal
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