Philippe Ragueneau

Ultra-secret decisions of the French Indochina High Command were known to the Communists within hours. And the highly-placed traitors are still at large

As this issue was about to go to press, France’s “procès des fuites” came to an end. Of the four defendants, two—whom our author calls “pallid and unimportant pawns”—were found guilty and sentenced to four-and six-years imprisonment. Although the trial engendered a maximum of heat, the dark shadow of politics effectively excluded all light down to the moment of the verdict —the Editors