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PARIS PRESS INDIGNANT. HERRIOT GOVERNMENT ENDANGERED. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12.45 p.m.) Paris, December 29. A spectacular but fruitless search of the offices of the paper Eclair followed the decision of the Government to prosecute the Eclair for disclosing secret documents of importance to national defence. The announcement raised a storm of protest on the part of almost the entire Press. M. Maleche, president of the Paris Press Association, has written to the Premier protesting against such a flagrant attack on the freedom of the Press. M. Herriot replied that journalistic indiscretions had several times hindered diplomatic negotiations, and stating that the Eclair's publication of the abridged memorandum of the Chequers meeting had involved both himself and Mr Ramsay MacDonakl. while the Nollet report, especially the confidential document, was not publishable without the consent of the Allied Governments. The opposition newspapers prophesy that a prosecution of the Eclair will mark the downfall of the Herriot Government.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2061, 30 December 1924, Page 5
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