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...Captain Jacques Sadoul, once condemned to death for deserting to the Bolsheviki while a member of the French Military Mission in Russia (TIME, Jan. 26), was acquitted by a court martial at Orleans which was convened to retry...
...retrial of onetime Captain Jacques Sadoul, who was sentenced to death in absentio in 1919 for deserting to the Bolsheviki while a member of the French Military Mission, began...
...Sadoul, a debonair, middle-aged man, stirred the court and all France by declaring that "it is fantastic to realize that it is yet unknown that, after they came into power, Lenin and Trotzy never ceased to appeal to France for military support that would enable them to resume the war against Germany...
...Georges Clemenceau with responsibility for the Brest-Litovsk Treaty (treaty of peace signed between Russia and Germany in 1918) and for "the death of several hundred thousands of soldiers." It was thought extremely unlikely that he could prove that Clemenceau actually did refuse military aid to the Bolsheviki, although Sadoul averred that documentary evidence existed...
...court voted adjournment of the trial. Sadoul was given temporary liberty pending continuance of the hearing. He scurried off to Paris, visited Communist friends in the Chamber of Deputies, received a great ovation...