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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?...
Thus, last week, read a sentence in the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Francaise. The writer, famed, impudent, irrepressible Editor Leon Daudet was still in secret hiding last week (TIME, June 13 et seq.) defying the French police to discover whither he had escaped from the Prison Sante...
Observers thought the situation politically dangerous to the prestige of the Cabinet and M. Poincare who recently ordered out some 3,000 police, soldiers and firemen to overawe the Royalist followers of M. Daudet and force him to go to jail on a technical charge of "defamation." There was talk last week of even hastening adjournment of the Chamber of Deputies for the summer, to stop scurrilous debate upon the Government's unpopular acts in respect to M. Daudet...
Their plan was simple, shrewd. At noontime, while Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut was lunching, a young Royalist entered a telephone booth in the Ministry of Interior. He called the Prison Santé, asked for its Director, M. Catry, and mimicking the voice of an assistant of Minister Sarraut, ordered that M. Léon Daudet and two other prisoners should be instantly released from jail...
...longer suspicious, went to Editor Daudet's cell and released him. M. Daudet burst into tears, kissed M. le Directeur Catry, wrung his hand, and rushed out into the street to mount a taxi. Even the taxi driver was a Royalist in disguise...