Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Take for instance police methods. Leon Daudet, famous editor of the Royalist. "L' Action Francaise", two years ago was sentenced to jail for a political offense--libel. But M. Daudet was not arrested such methods are not used in France, especially not with political defendants. Any such action the police wisely aver would serve no good cause, for it would merely make a martyr out of the convict, and political martyrs talk louder and are listened too more eagerly than ordinary politicians...
...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...
...these so different political offenders react last week upon being pressingly invited to jail...
Thus supported, M. Daudet could and did snap his fat fingers last week, when friends asked if he would go to jail, saying "Pouff! Pas du tout!" ("Not much...
Although the custom alluded to is of immemorial antiquity, an attempt was made last week to stamp it out utterly by His Excellency Jules Garde, Governor-General of French West Africa. To women who thus beautify themselves in future, a jail term of from two to five years. To "parents or beauty doctors" who perform or abet such beautification, jail sentences of from five to ten years. Thus proclaimed native heralds, by authority derived from President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic...