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MARTIN is CHOICE
FOR PRESIDENT OF
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nomics and government, but that here
we register the colossal failure of the
age, and we are still registering it." He
added:
I'VE are changing the distinctive
characteristics Of our system from a
representative government, the thing
which we inherited. to a bureaucratic
I'VE are reducing the States from
the station of sovereignty to that Of vas
salage to a great Federal bureaucracy.
I'VE are destroying the governmental
capacity of the private citizen, Destroy
ing his self-reliance, his consciousness
of responsibility, his pride of position,
and making him mendicant at the
door of the Federal Treasury.
Every reservoir of credit in this
country has been exhausted, we are
told, except the Federal Treasury. AS
a matter of fact, that IS exhausted.
We are now mortgaging the future tax
paving power Of the people.
I'VE cannot maintain this Federal
Government resting upon structure OF
decaying States. We cannot maintain
our great economic organizations OF the
cities resting upon an economic founda-
ton such as the condition of the peo-
pie provides"
Fundamentals Necessary.
"In working out cur economic and
governmental difficulties" he continued.
I'VE must return to fundamental prln-
ciples, to obedience to the laws OF ma
governments"
THE situation requires the united
efforts, and challenges the genius OF
the whole of the American citizenship"
Summers emphasized.
In his address, M Reynaud explained
the method followed in the appointment
Of the judiciary. which rests with the
minister Of justice.
There is a contest between the can
didates to the judiciary functions" he
said. "The minister OF justice appoints
the best Of them after an investigation
into their character and fitness. Their
appointment is formally signed by the
President of the republic and counter
as the minister of justice IS alone re-
sponsible before the Parliament, 1t Is,
in fact, the minister and not the Pres
ident who has the power of appoint
ment. Later, in the course of their
career, they are promoted according to
their merits by the minister of justice
so that the young judge OF today may
aspire to reaching ultimately the bench
of the highest court, our Court OF Cas-
sation. There is not in France single
elected magistrate. We believe in elec-
tions, but in other realms.
Two-Group Judiciary.
"Our judiciary is divided into two
groups: First, the judges. Second,
the prosecutors, who are in charge Of
enforcing the laws and whose duties are
to bring the accused before the judges.
1.-THE judges, whom we call the sitting
magistrates, those who administer JUS
tice, are perfectly independent and they
have no account to give to anybody as
to the way they have rendered their
decisions. The minister Of justice has
not even the power to transfer them
from one court to another without their
consent. In case they commit faults
against honor they are judged by their
own peers.
LAS to the prosecutors, whom we call
the standing magistrates, they must
obey the minister of justice, who in
terferes only in difficult and important
cases. But there is an axiom dating
back to the regime of old France, as
follows: La plume est serve mais la
parole est libre' (the pen may be COM
manded but speech is free), which
means that while the prosecutor may
be compelled to present for the gov
ernment document which brings the
accused to court, once before the court
he is free to speak according to his own
conscience"
Tonight, at Constitution Hall, the
Marques of Reading, wartime Am
bassador from Great Britain, will speak
This meeting will start at $3.50, and the