1:09:04
"You are accused..."
1:09:06
- accused of having,
in a newspaper article...
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...defamed the members
of the Esterhazy court-martial...
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...in acquitting Esterhazy
by order of the high command.
1:09:18
Down with Zola!
1:09:28
Down with Zola!
1:09:32
Quiet!
1:09:35
Quiet, please!
1:09:36
If there is any further demonstration,
I'll have the court cleared.
1:09:41
Mr. Advocate General, you may proceed.
1:09:48
The defense will restrict itself
to the single fact...
1:09:52
...that Zola accused the court-martial
of acquitting Esterhazy...
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...by order of the high command.
1:09:57
But that's intolerable.
Zola's accusations cover a wide field...
1:10:02
...yet you are allowed to confine us
to six lines of his complete article.
1:10:06
Zola's accusations were intended
to reopen the Dreyfus case...
1:10:10
...regardless of the evil effect
it might have on the country.
1:10:13
That case was closed four years ago
and won't be reopened.
1:10:17
How can you defend Zola
unless the Dreyfus case is discussed?
1:10:20
One is interlocked with the other.
1:10:22
Are you asking my advice
on how to conduct your defense?
1:10:26
- That is not my business.
- Then it must be mine.
1:10:28
You won't be permitted
to introduce a closed case.
1:10:31
- Who is your first witness?
- The minister of war.
1:10:34
The minister of justice declines to allow
the minister of war to testify in this case.
1:10:40
I will call the chief of general staff.
1:10:43
The chief of staff regrets that the
minister of war won't allow him to testify.
1:10:47
The assistant chief of staff, then.
1:10:50
The assistant chief of staff regrets
that the chief of staff...
1:10:53
And Colonel Dort?
1:10:55
He regrets that duties imposed upon him
by the assistant chief of...
1:10:59
Officers are not an exempt class,
and I insist on their testifying!