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The Dreyfus Case

You Are There · February 8, 1948 · 31 min · 4,615 words

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Military Court has reigned France, where on this 8th day of September 1899, the celebrated racial cases in its last day. The court is in recess. The judges are in chambers to make a crucial decision.

Will they, as Nick has evidence, the testimony of a germination? Captain Alfred Drayton stands accused of betraying the French Republic by turning over top secret information to the states. If the German testimony is admitted, it is certain that Drayton will be acquitted.

If it is not, it is equally as certain that Alfred Drayfuss will again, as he was in his first trial five years ago, be judged guilty of treason and return to the heat and the hell of devil's island.

The crowd here in the courtroom in this little town of Ren is quietly awaiting the return of the military justices. That's November 8, 1899, Ren Franz. You are there! Day of the infamous Dreyfus case.

Will a French military court defy an outraged world opinion and send an innocent officer back to Devil's Island? Back to the twilight of a century, when the very foundations of the French Republic crumble of Emil Zola's cry, I accuse.

All things are, as they were then, except for one thing. You are there. You are there, produced and directed by Robert Lewis Shaehan, is based on authentic historical facts and quotations. And now, the courtroom at Grand France and John Daly said, in this month's whole time, the tension is reflected in the attitude of our little spectators, but also, it's reflected

the faces and in the manner of a hundred and thirty correspondence from all over the world, from Peru to Cisse from Siberia to Maine. About ten minutes ago, these very same correspondence had met the Lavoiresi, the brilliant defense of Cenny for Alfred Dragal, requested to call out the testimony of the German agent Colonel von

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