The retrial of onetime Captain Jacques Sadoul, who was sentenced to death in absentio in 1919 for deserting to the Bolsheviki while a member of the French Military Mission, began at Orléans.
Sadoul, a debonair, middle-aged man, stirred the court and all France by declaring that "it is fantastic to realize that it is yet unknown that, after they came into power, Lenin and Trotzy never ceased to appeal to France for military support that would enable them to resume the war against Germany."
He went on to charge ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau with responsibility for the Brest-Litovsk Treaty (treaty of peace signed between...
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