The acquittal of 20-year-old Mlle. Germaine Berthon of shooting Marius Plateau, an editor of L' Action Française (TIME, Dec. 31), received the following comment from the Paris press:
L' Action Française said bitterly that the next slayer of a Royalist will probably be awarded the Legion of Honor.
Le Figaro remarked that the verdict was a "triumph of violence" and suggests that the jury became befuddled and committed an error because of the eloquent oratory addressed to them pro and con Royalism.
Le Gaulois demanded: "Under what aberration...
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