New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

Defeatists became active. and all under
the protection Of Malvy, who. in his
position Of Minister of the Interior,
would neither take anv action against
them himself nor permit anyone else
to act.
Lenient With Sora
Another instance of the cooperation
Of Malvy and Longuet was the case OF
a Spaniard named Soria. Both the
army and the police asked for his ex
pulson. but Sebastien Faure. the
Anarchist leader. went to Longuet and
Longuet went to Malvv. Thereupon
Malvy granted q delay of eight days TO
Soria and at the end of that time
granted an indefinite delay. 1t was not
until Malvy's successor was appointed
that the decree of expulsion against
Soria was carried out.
Another anarchist, Nandamme, known
as Mauricius. gave his attention to
starting strikes in munition works. He
succeeded in reducing by 40 per cent
the output Of the factories in Bourges
The police prepared a letter to the
Minister of Munitions, warning him of
the activities of Nandamme. But when
the letter was submitted to MalvY for
his approval he refused to let it be
sent. Thereafter Vandamme continued
under police protection, for the police
interpreted Malvys refusal to let the
Minister of Munitions be warned as
Instructions to protect Nandamme.
Did Not Arrest Faure
The time came when the Minister
of War asked that steps be taken
against Sebastian Faure but Malvy
undertook to reason with the anarch-
ist instead of arresting MIN. Faure
printed the interview with Malvy, as
follows:
"'Reassurc YOURSELF. cried the
Minister The Cabinet has persuaded
ed the military authorities to re
nounce all the measures they had IN
tended to take against you and your
comrades. All the evidence against
you, reports and letters. have been
given to me. and l have burned them
all. Everything has been reduced to
ashes and the matter is dead
Not satisfied with this, Malvy &C
cording to the report of the preIlml-
nary investigation, subsidized from
the funds of the Ministry of the In
terror Faure's paper.
Faure went free until Malvy was no
longer Minister of the Interior.
Trotzky was another of Malvy's pro
tege's. The police wanted to arrest
him. but Malvy saved him and per
mtted him to continue his anti
French propaganda in Paris. After
being thus assured of Malvy's protec-
ton, Trotzkv became openly pro-Ger-
man, and left France only in his own
good time
Defeatists Were Protected
These are examples Of the way in
VI, Job oil h;
anarchist, pacifist or defeatist who
was brought to his attention could be
sure of his protection. The prescott
ing attorney in his preliminary adj
dress to the Senate, sitting as High
Court of Justice, said
"Thcre is no reason to believe NJ
Malvy betrayed France for money, but
we have more than sufficient evidence
IN his culpable negligence and forget
fulness of his duty of his having
given most efficacious aid to crimes
committed against his country by men
whose treason has since been estab-
lished in the courts And we cannot
believe he was ignorant of what they
intended, which makes him incontest-
ably their accomplce."
OF Malvy's reasons for his conduct
the prosecutor said
an. Malvy was not fitted by previ-
Gus experience for place in the
Cabinet. 1t seemed, rather, that he
held the place of Minister of the IN
terror on account of being the devot-
ed servant of political leader who
wanted to preserve his influence in
the state"
Caillaux Kept Informed
Caillaux was not mentioned BY
name, but he might as we'll have been,
for the words of the prosecutor point
ed to no one else. NJ. Merillon, the
prosecutor, continued: IN. Malvv,
during his entire term of office, has
defended, encouraged and assisted
those men who have committed against
their country the crime of treason.
From papers found in the cell of Bolo
1t is established that NJ. Malvy kcut
Nj. CalllauX informed of everything
That could be of interest to him or
his friends"
Yet again the prosecutor showed the
connection between Malvy and Gail
lauX. IN. Malvy' he said. under
took to annihilate the authority of the
military police, which, under the d.
rectlon of General >Clergerie and
Commandant Baudier. rendered the
most precious services to the national
defence. When the military police
pressed case until they became OBJ
Jectlonablc to NJ. Caillaux they were
deprived Of all authority