Evening star., 1923-03-17
Jean Marlier, French Chef de la Surete,
Holds Power to Expel Unwanted Aliens

seille as a Frenchman. and that there
fore he could not be deported as an un-
desirable alien.
Another duty of the chef de la
srrete is the care of the dossiers
other than those comprised in the
archives Of the prefecture of police.
and which relate exclusively TO IN
dictments and convictions, and when,
eight or ten million in number, IN
clude the record of every man or
the laws since 1871, when all police
records and archives up to that date
were Intentionally destroyed by the
leaders of the commune insurrectloh.
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The dossiers of which the chef de
la surete has charge are those OF
people who have never come within
the clutches of the law, but public
characters. statesmen. politicians,
foreign and native diplomats. leading
bankers. newspaper proprietors and
editors, great artists. captains of in
dustry and of commerce-in fact, OF
nearly every one capable of exercising
a direct or indirect influence upon the
course of events. These dossiers are
the result Of shadowing and of secret
investigation, and revealing. as they
do. the skeletons in the closets of
every man and woman concerned,
placed an enormous power in the
hands of the chef de la surete and of
his immediate and hierarchical supe-
rior the minister of the interior, who
is often the premier. Indeed, many
prime ministers in forming cabinet
retain in their own hands the port
folio of the department of the inte-
rior by reason of the access which II
accords to them to the "dosSers"
of the "surete" and it may be re-
called that when. many years ago,
the late Daniel Wilson became in
yolved in "a very sensational scandal.
so unsavory that it drove him from
the chamber of deputies, and his
father-in law, old Jules Grevy, who
was perfectly innocent of any wrong
doing. from the presidency of the
republic. he was able to avoid being
placed on trial and punished for his
crimes by threatening TO publish in
England or in some foreign country
some 10000 of these dossiers affect
ing nearly every man in public life
in France. OF which he had secured
copies while living under the roof of
his father-in-law in the PRESIDENT tial
palace of the Elysees. Such wide
spread revelations of skeletons in the
closets of every public man would
have endangered the existence of the
republic. then still in it's infancy. and
| so, while Daniel Wilson's confederateS
were sent to Jail for long terms, he
, himself escaped any punishment.
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| AS for John Marlier, in Y lose hands
the direction of the department de Ia
surete has been placed, he is man
with an absolutely clean record who
won his spurs as principal secretary
| of the late Robert Leullier during the
| great war, of which Leullier was one
of the civilian heroes. Leullier was
prefect or governor of the Aisne
/ throughout the conflict. and was
| present at scissors during the, re-
peated bombardments of that city by
| the Germans, with Secretary Marlier
always by his side, no matter how
heavy the fire. After the restoration
| of peace Leullier was made prefect of
| all the Pas de CalaiS-namely, of those
| regions Of France which had suffered
| most at the hands of the Germans, in
which the entire territory had been
! devastated and literally shayen of
every building and every tree by the
! enemy He did so we'll there that he
was promoted to the post of project
| of police of Paris. where his mission,
most brilliantly inaugurated, was cut
| short by premature and sudden death,
Marlier being still his secretary and
| chief assistant. Now Marlier, who has
become a popular figure in metropoli-
| tan life, has received recognition by
J appointment amidst general approval
| to the responsible post OF chef de la
surete of France.