All France laughed au nez ("hee-hawed") when fiery M. Leon Daudet, editor of the hysterically Royalist newspaper L'Action Francaise was recently released from prison (TIME, July 4) by a faked telephone order supposed to have come from a member of the august "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincaré. Since that merry escapade every policeman in France has received the order "Arrest M. Leon Daudet on sight"but Daudet has managed to conceal his whereabouts. Therefore a sensation burst last week, at Paris, when it was announced that Editor Daudet would positively address...
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