J'Accuse!. The Men Who Betrayed France

London England: George G. Harrap, 1941. Hardback. First Edition. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Couple of small tears to top edge of D/J. Browning to D/J. With a Foreword by Frank Owen. Andre Simone discloses the men who betrayed France. This book is the incredible story of the most colossal act of treachery ever committed..written in a white heat of anger, it denounces those leaders who through blood and tears betrayed not only the glorious Republic of France but also the lives of the entire French people, politicians of both the Left and Right; how the 'Two Hundred Families' really ruled France through finance - they invariably provided the Regents of the Bank of France; how Laval sold Ethiopia to Mussolini, and what a hollow mockery the Stresa Front really was. He relates a conversation with a Cabinet Minister the day before the Minister was driven to suicide by the 'Cagoulards', the hooded men who were Hitler's agents and of whom Weygand was a member. Petain and Weygand, too, were friends of Colonel de la Rocque, leader of the French Fascist Croix de Feu, and Andre Simone shows how the movement was allow4ed to flourish and even to bear arms. He tells how Von Ribbentrop won over Daladier; how the sinister Georges Bonnet worked at the Foreign Office; how his stock speculations affected the Munich Pact; how he used the Quai d'Orsay press Bureau and administered the secret funds for his own purposes. Various sections of the Press were controlled by Cabinet Ministers by a system of graft. Even the military censorship was placed in the hands of Hitler's paid agents. The General Staff itself was rotten with treachery. Reynaud found that 'tanks existed only on paper'. The author names the chief traitors and tells how they made Gamelin the scapegoat. The curtain is lifted on the scenes in the Cabinet during those last days of the Third Republic when the destiny of France was placed in the hands of Petain and Weygand. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hadrback.