SENATE EXPLAINS
REFUSAL TO TRY COMMUNIST
NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
(Received 26th May, 2.45 p.m.) PARIS, 25th May. At the secret session which the Senate considered the question of trying Murcel Cachin, it was stated that the declaration of the Senate's incompetence to try a Communist must not be regarded as an anti-Government manoeuvre, but rather as an indication that it is inadvisable to make martyrs of Communists by trying them before the High Court when other Courts existed. The former wag meant only to function when the safety of the State was really in peril. It was evident that the Communists of France did not constitute a serious danger. If the Senate agreed to judge this case, it would soon find itself sitting more or less permanently, and would then become a, political instrument in .the Government's hands. ;.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 8
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