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...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...
...crime of plump, complacent, witty, dynamic Editor Leon Daudet is "defaming the police." He has defamed almost every high official in France at one time or another in L'Action Francaise, to the huge delight of Parisians; but "defaming the police" serves to cover the merry multitude of his bright sins. No one really wants to bright put such a booming, spacious fellow as M. Daudet in jail; but appearances must be preserved, and he has already had two years of grace...
High mass drew to its solemn close in Beaux Cathedral, France. Three young men waited in the square outside to sell newspapers to the faithful. All the newspapers were the same-an issue of Editor Leon Daudet's L' Action Française (royalist), for whose editorial attacks upon Republican Catholics the Pope lately placed the newspaper on the index expurgatorius (TIME, Jan. 24) and more lately excommunicated impenitent Editor Daudet and his colleague, Charles Maurras. . . . Out of the Cathedral came, not only the flock but their shepherd as well, the Bishop of Beaux in the awful splendor...
...Beatissimus Pater, Pius XI, was reported last week from Rome to have excommunicated in the second or more serious degree** Leon Daudet (son of the famed author Alphonse Daudet) and Charles Maurras, both leading members of the French Royalist party. The excommunicated had stigmatized in their Paris newspaper, L'Action Francaise, all Republican Catholics-asserting that true Catholics are Royalists. The Pope not only excommunicated M. Daudet and M. Maurras, last week, but despatched an official rebuke to the French Cardinals Lucon (Rheims), Charost (Rennes), and Billot for upholding L'Action Francaise in various letters written by them...
Helpless with rage, M. Daudet had attacked the man who he thought had turned the Holy See against him-Aristide Briand. Reputedly, Foreign Minister Briand has made an agreement with the Vatican of which one clause is that it shall discourage the obstreperousness of Catholic Royalists in France. As quid pro quo M. Briand is said to have lent his influence upon the side of the Papal candidacy of Archduke Otto for the throne of Hungary (See HUNGARY...