The Judge.--“It is I who do not understand you.”
M. Clemenceau.--“Then I will begin again. I say that General de
Pellieux made answer to M. Labori, who asked him questions concerning
matters that took place behind closed doors. Then, when M. Labori asked
him another question about matters that also took place behind closed
doors, General de Pellieux said: ‘I will not answer the question,
because I have no right to speak of anything that took place behind
closed doors.’ Therefore I establish a fact,--the fact at which I
desired to arrive,--that General de Pellieux has constituted himself a
judge of what he can, and what he cannot, say about matters that take
place behind closed doors. He began by answering M. Labori concerning
matters that took place behind closed doors, saying: ‘I consider that I
can do so.’ Then at a certain moment he makes himself sole judge, and
says: ‘From now on I cannot answer you.’ That is what I wanted to show.
The witness has remembered things that took place behind closed doors,
and then, when, for one reason or another, he thought that he ought not
to go further, he stopped.”
The Judge.--“Is that all?”