Word: caillaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since the trial of Warren Hastings for High Crimes and Misdemeanors has any prosecution attracted such wide interest as the trial of Joseph Caillaux. Trials for murder have ceased to interest a public used to violence of all kinds, but a trial for treason is sufficiently rare to greatly excite the public mind. The placing of Joseph Caillaux, former Premier of France, on trial on the charge of conspiracy against his country in time of war is the latest attempt to punish a man whose political career has been so shadowy as to excite grave suspicion...
...will be remembered that while he was Premier in 1916 his wife shot and killed Gaston Calmette, editor of the Figure for accusing her husband of betraying France in the Morocco incident. Her own beauty and brilliance and M Calmette's reputation of nasty meanness caused her acquittal. M. Caillaux resigned his office shortly afterward and retired from politics. During the war he served in the paymaster's department of the French army, but soon got into trouble with superior English officers for unexplained reasons. As a result he was removed and punished. In November, 1914, he sailed for Buenos...
...case against Caillaux is similar to that against Bolo Pasha who was executed as a spy in April 1918 and that against M. Duval editor of the Bonnet Rouge which was subsidised by a German slush fund, who also went to death at Vincennes for treachery the July following. M. Malvy, a close friend of the accused and Minister of the Interior while he was Premier, is now in exile in Spain as the result of his diplomatic machinations...