Word: cachin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a three months' vacation, the French Parliament last week reassembled. Its first act was to free four Communist Deputies - MM. Cachin, Duclos, Marty, Doriot-who were imprisoned during the summer for sedition. It was made clear to the four that as soon as the Chamber of Deputies ended its session they must go back to prison and "spend their vacations there." Deputy Franklin-Bouillon and a small party of his friends resigned from the Socialist party and formed the Radical Unionist party, the eleventh in French politics. The session continued...
...French Government despatched a courteous summons last the week to arch the arch Communist of Royalist France ? and of the respectively, Royalist editor Leon Daudet newspaper L'Action Française and the leading Communist Deputy, Marcel Cachin. These gentlemen were told that they must at once set a time convenient to themselves to serve jail sentences which have hung over each for almost two years. Since their was crimes were extended by political, French this custom ? courtesy based on the theory that it is foolish to make martyrs out of men whose crime is too much talk against...
Acrid Deputy Cachin, per contra, is under sentence for "in citing desertion." soldiers of the Republic to desertion." However, the it was only to the Moroccan war (TIME, May 11, War 1925, et from seq.) and not the World War from which M. Chachin exhorted soldiers to desert. So he too has been . . . allowed almost two years grace...
Communist Cachin, lacking a sense of humor, called a meeting of Communist leaders in Paris. There a dozen or more speakers breathed defiance, typically as follows...
Next day even Le Figaro, usually opposed to every policy of Royalist Daudet, printed an open letter to President Doumergue of the Republic, asking a free pardon for M. Daudet and stating: "If he is imprisoned at the same time as this adherent of the Third International [M. Cachin] he will be released next day by popular demand...