Evening star., 1924-12-07
MAY DEFEAT HERRIOT.
sadoul Case Presents Delicate
Problem for Premier.

BY Radio 20 The Star
PARIS, December 6.-Communism
which was considered a dead issue in
France, has reared it's head anew in
the few weeks since recognition OF
the Soviets and the dramatic re- entry
into France of jacques Sadoul al
most simultaneously with the arrival
of Ambassador Krassin has famed
smoldering hoishevik propa gauda
into a living flame.
Sadoul was brilliant young law
yer, the son Of wealthy French par
ents. Ho was commissioned lieu
tenant at the outbreak Of the war
Then he was promoted to captain and
sent on a mission to Russia in 1917
by the ministry of munitions. to re
port on the possibility of reconstitut-
ing tho Russian army with French
supplies.
Converted to Reds.
While Sadoul was in Russia. the
BolSheYik revolution broke out and
Sadoul became converted to the Com
munist cause. Lenin appointed him
peoples commissioner at Odessa and
he is supposed to have had much in
f1uenCe in promoting the mutiny of
the French Black Sea fleet in 1919 in
which Marty. now a Communist
deputy. was implicated.
The French government ordered Sa
doul court martialed for desertion OF
his post before the enemy, and he was
condemned to death in abSentia
In the last five years Sadoul became
a naturalized Russian and was ap-
pointed director of French propa :
Eanda by the Third Internatfonale.
with headquarters at Moscow, from
which he sent nuremous articles to
the French Communist press
l. l.
not be captured, his vast property in
France was sequestered, but. oddly
enough, it. was never sold as Sc
Questered property usually is This
IS reported to have been due largely
to the influence of President Miller
and who, before the war. was the
Sadoul family lawyer and adminis-
TRAITOR of the estate. 1t is said that
today, when NJ. Millerand has just
been elected honorary president of
the Lique des Patriotes. the extreme
reactionary political society, he still
uses his influence in Sadours behalf.
Wife Lives in Pnris.
Sadouls wife and children have
lived in Paris meanwhile, except for
two visits Nine SadouI has made to
Moscow with the governments per
mission. The first visit was during
he famine. when she found her hus-
band had child by a Russian wom-
IN. Famine conditions made nourfsh-
tnent OF the child extremely difficult,
50 the wife brought the child back
TO france and took it into the fam
~. Nine. Sadoul is standing stanch-
Iy by her husband in his present
trouble
When Sadoul arrived in Paris this
week the police had been informed
two days in advarce, but failed to
catch him at the frontier. and ONLY
arrested him after he had been in
Paris for 4S hours, during which he
visited his old friends and familiar
haunts.
EmbarrasScs Herriot
The situation is extremely embar-
RAISING for Premier Herrfot. who had
promised amnesty for Sadoul weeks
ago. but was turned down by the
senate. VI. Herriot now apparently
does not dare to grant him pardon.
which Sadoul probably would refuse,
any now Unless an amnesty was
voted, Sadoul would have to be re-
tried, and ii is unlikely a court-mar-
tai would again convict him of
capital offense
The whole purpose Of Sadours re-
turn is to promote Communist
propaganda, which a trial would help
enormously. Some of Herriot's ad-
Vlsers suggest that since SadouI has
become naturalized Russian, the
easiest way to turn the joke back on
Inc Communists would be simply to
deport him as an undesirable alien.
thus avoiding the propaganda oppor-
tunIty which a new trial would
present.
II is dif1cult to dissociate the Mos
COW government from the affair since
Sadoul is an official in the Third
lnternationale. The case will make
much trouble for the present govern
ment in Parliament when it is con-
sldered in connection with recogni-
tlon of the Soviets and some even go
80 1ar as to predict that Premier
Herrlot may fall as a result.
Copyright 1924