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...Parisian telephone operator, a mother, Mme. Montard had just been put in jail. And how then could she perform her duty to the babe which had nestled at her breast a few hours before? In jail! And what was to become of her four elder children, none as yet in their teens? In jail! And why was Mme. Montard in jail...
Members of the Chamber of Deputies were loud in shouting, last week, that no sufficient reason existed. Mme. Montard had simply chanced to be employed as local switchboard operator for the Royalist newspaper L'Action Française when its staff decided to get their editor, M. Leon Daudet, out of prison by mimicking the voice of a high official and ordering his relaese (TIME, July 4). Mme. Montard, by handling these hoax calls, became, in the eyes of the police, a conspirator. She was arrested, led into the grey depths of La Prison Sant?...
...Sanctity of Motherhood. General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincaré, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when M. Daudet escaped, and to back down tamely now in the matter of M. Daudet...
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