ACTION AGAINST COMMUNISTS
REPORTED DECISION IN FRANCE PROSECUTION OF PARTY'S CENTRAL COMMITTEE PARIS, February 25. The French Minister of Wan (Mr Paul Ramadier) took legal action today against the central committee of the French Communist Party for allegedly inciting the Army to revolt. A high Government source says that Mr Ramadier’s action is based on statements on wall posters and in the Communist daily newspaper, “L’Humanite,” during the mine strike last autumn. . t Mr Ramadier’s complaint was sent to the Minister of Justice (Mr Robert Lecourt). He will hand it to the Public Prosecutor, who will be required to proceed against members of the central committee who are not deputies. The National Assembly is debating to-day the lifting of the Parliamentary immunity of Mr Marcel Cachin. editor-in-chief of “L’Humanite.” Requests for lifting the immunity of the secretarygeneral of the Communist Party (Mr Maurice Thorez) and other Communist. deputies, are expected to follow. Reuter’s Paris correspondent says that the Public Prosecutor has requested the waiving of the Parliamentary immunity of Mr Florimond Bonte, the official French Communist spokesman.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25740, 28 February 1949, Page 7
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