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Died. César Campinchi, 58, lean, volcanic Corsican, one of the great criminal lawyers of his time, Minister of the Marine in the last government of Republican France; after an operation; in Marseille. He unceasingly opposed the Munich policy, fled with Daladier and Mandel to North Africa when the Army collapsed last June, unlike them was never interned to be tried for treason...
...prominent French jurists, an admiral and a general, has a shameful political job to perform. Revolutions and great defeats demand their scapegoats. Elected scapegoats, apparently in cold blood, were Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Premiers Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud and Leon Blum, onetime Ministers Yvon Delbos, Georges Mandel, Cesar Campinchi, Guy La Chambre, Pierre Cot, and their direct & indirect collaborators. The men of Vichy apparently still had a little too much conscience to take the scapegoats' lives. The maximum sentence the Riom court may impose is life imprisonment. Although there is no appeal, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, as Chief...
...their battered rump of a nation into the familiar authoritarian pattern of government by suppression, censorship, alibis, purges. Echoes of "Heads will roll" Hitlerism were heard from Paris to Marseille as the Petain Government announced that onetime Premier Edouard Daladier, onetime Interior Minister Georges Mandel, onetime Navy Minister Cesar Campinchi, onetime Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos and numerous other pre-Petain Government leaders were under arrest and would be tried and punished because "they threw our country into war although they knew we were not ready to fight...
...Daladier, Mandel, Campinchi and Delbos had fled from Bordeaux on June 20 on the steamer Massilia, a few days before armistice agreements were concluded with Germany and Italy. Reaching Casablanca, they were held on their ship by Moroccan authorities acting on orders from Bordeaux, to await the Petain Government's decision. In Marseille last week to stand trial, sagging-jawed Daladier and his fellow scapegoats learned that they were the principal victims of a new Government decree withdrawing citizenship and confiscating the property of all citizens who left French territory between May 10 and June 30 without a valid...
Military Marine: Cesar Campinchi...