MOVE TO REVOKE IMMUNITY OF FRENCH RED M.P.’S
(11 a.m.) PARIS, Feb 28. It is authoritatively stated that the Public Prosecutor's office has decided to ask for the waiving of Parliamentary immunity for 20 Communist Deputies and Senators. All were said to have made sneeches or written articles and pamphlets to demoralise the French armed forces. The Ministry of the Interior stated today that a captain on the active list had been arrested. Four Communists were arrested last Saturday and charged with acts calculator to endanger the external security of the State. A number of other members of the Communist Party in Paris and the provinces are to be questioned soon by an examining magistrate. The pro-Government newspaper France Soir calls these developments the “second offensive against antinational activities.” The anti-Government Radical newspaper Aurore accuses the French Communist Party of being “essentially an espionage organisation on behalf of Soviet Russia." It accuses the Government of attacking only the small fry and urges action against the chiefs of the Communist Party.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22883, 1 March 1949, Page 5
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