The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-05
SADOUL, SOVIET
Citizen, PLACED
Under ARREST
French Seize Captain
Who Became Red
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PARIS, Dec. 4.-Jacques Sa-
doul, one Of the most prominent
of French Communists, was ar
rested at his hotel here at noon
yesterday. He is under sentence
Of death by a French military
court which tried him for trea-
son while he was absent in
Soviet Russia.
Comrade Sadoul was a cap
tain in the French army during
the world war, and was as
signed by the French army as
military attache to the French
mission to Russia during the
Kerensky regime after serving
actively on the western front.
Renowned Career for Boishevisn.
When the BoIsheviks overthrow
Kerensky, Sadoul, already a convert
to the social theories of Henri Bar
busse, the initiator Of the "Clarte"
movement Of intellectual radicalism,
laid aside his captaincy in the French
army, his position Of military attache
and cast in his lot with the ragged
and starving workers Of Russia in
their fight for life and power
Sadoul put aside his French citizen
ship, became a naturalized citizen Of
the Soviet republic, and later an Off
cial Of the Soviet government. This
angered the government of France
then under Clemencean, which both
then and since has been the bitter
est enemy Of the Soviet government
on the continent.
Condemned TO Death.
Captain sadoul was cited, in his alb
sence, for trial by court martial for
treason. While he was still in Soviet
Russia the army court in France con.
demned him to death for desertion on
November 8, 1919.
One OF the chief political slogans
around which the French Communist
Party is rallying the masses in a unit
ed front to expose the capitalist ma
ture Of the Herriot radical socialist
party and government, is the demand
for amnesty for political offenders
The arrest of SadouI will stimulate
this campaign to an immense degree
as Sadoul has become a heroic figure
before the French proletariat.
Growth Of French Communism.
BY the united front for amnesty and
similar fight against the high cost
of living and, during the Ruhr inva-
sion, against militarism and the oc
cupation, the French Communist Par
ty has won leadership over consider
able numbers of workers and pea
SAINTS. The united front on the politi-
cal field with the socialist party I'm
der a slogan of "a workers and pea
SAINTS bloc" added considerably to its
prestige.
How frightened are the bourgeoisie
by the growth Of the Communist Par
ty may be seen by the declaration Of
Cardinal Dubois appealing to French
catholics to fight the Communist dan
ger" In the official catholic organ,
the Semaine ReIigieuse, he writes:
Cardinal Gets Excited.
''The hour is grave. We must react
today; tomorrow, perhaps, will be too
late. God protect Francei~ lie cites
the 10000 workers Of Paris who turn
ed out to commemorate the death OF
Lenin, and the demonstration attend
Ing the transfer to the Pantheon of
tho ashes of Jean JaUres, the anti
war cialist assassinated, presumably
by the order of Poincare, at the out
break of the world war. The excit-
able cardinal continued:
There was Communist army.
compact and disciplined. They num-
bered $4,000 modified under the
shadow Of multitude of red flags
stamped with the hammer and the
sickle Of the Soviets. They advanced
to the sound Of the international
shouting cries Of disorder and VIC.
lence. II was fearful revelation
1t Is reported that Leonid Krassin.
the first ambassador Of the Soviet gov
eminent, who arrived only the day
before Sadoul's arrest, is asking in
structions from Moscow to prepare
protest against the Imprisonment of
Sadoul who is now a citizen OF Soviet
Russia.