FRANCE: Il le dit

A journal recently printed the following scurrilous sentence: "The President of the Republic is the living incarnation, the pride-swelled descendant of the great legal bandits who ruined our ancestors by usury, by monopoly, by the crafty putting into execution of all the processes which the law, made by them and for them, put into their hands!"

"Treason 1" No. President Millerand wrote it himself some 30 years ago when he was just plain Comrade Millerand, an ardent Socialist.

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