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WHY THE CRISIS IN FRANCE
T
ROCKING BOAT
Should
by
BY 'LOW
VISCOUNT TEMPLEWOOD
murderers hang?
effective for
more
The Communists Strike,
W
De Gaulle Waits
By JOAN HARRISON
PARIS, Nov. 23. He advocates austerity and hard ITH the failure of 75- work. An unpredictable man of year-old Leon Blum to great integrity, he belleves that he Surrounding de Gaullo is a group
get a sufficient majority alone can save France. from the French National of former Resistance leaders and Assembly to form a Govern- intellectuals.
ment capable of holding a Foremost of these is Andro Mát- middle course between the Com-rux, Q writer and one-time Com.. munists and General de Gaulle, 1939. As "Colonel. Berger Malraux munist, who changed bir politics in France ін gradually being fought in the Resistance. brought face to face with the De Gaulle's personal, nesistant, straight issue Right or und n possible civil war.
Blum, defented by a very small
1040. martin, was one of the last hopes headed by its general secretary. 47- The French Communist Party.
of the Centre parties.
Left, Gaston
Palewski, was formerly chief of staff under Paul Reynaud
in
Now the hopes are that Robert year-old Maurice Thorez, holds 2L Schuman, the Popular Republican percent of the seats in the National and former Fluance Minister, will Assembly. be able to form a Government 10
At the recent municipal elections
stop the tide of political events for it polled 30 percent of the voles. It
lost considerable prestige over at least a few months.
great
For France is ripe for revolution.
Nearly 1,000,000
are now idle
Nearly 1,000,000 workers are on strike. Factories are idle. Transport
is threatened.
One hundred and five thousand
Gaulle's victory, but not a number of vales.
dc
De Gaulle's gains came from the Socialists and Popular Republicans, not so much from the Communist ranks.
Much of the fate of France at the moment lies in the hands of the Communists. They are nghting to hold their Influence over the C.G.T. coal miners have stopped work. (Trades Union Congress). Strikes r the flour mills are veaus-
This body is all-powerful In Ing shortage. and even 12,000 France, and until the recent strike schoolteachers have walked out of of the motor and bus employees the
their jobs.
Communist-influence
The Communist leaders and their strong.
officiat Press organs are
Strike, strike, strike."
urging,
A hundred and forty thousand
conscript troops have been recalled,
Was very
Split inside
trades unions
or-
and the Parls police force is being At the end of that strike the bolstered up with reserves from secretary of the C.C.T., Leon Jou- other parts of the country.
haux, organised a breakaway by
who, resented their Pa of the French Communist members,
Maurice Thorez and Laurent ganisation being used as a political Casanova, are on a visit to Moscow, weapon. HE object of the new It is further claimed that, if. It is not sufficiently realised Their return to Paris ta expected Even so, the Communists still
Criminal Justice Bill is there were no death penalty, that the men and women who daily.
hold the key to strikes as a force to rationalise justice and burglars would
often now enter the Prison Service
If they bring back with them against the Government. 0 determination to use their in- "M. to make it more
Thorez has up to now been asfluence over the trades unions to concillatory in his efforts towards a preventing crime. It is upon carry arms and be more ready rightly regard themselves this basis that every proposal to kill their victims in order to social workers with a definite force a general strike or attempt a Communist France.
"coup de force," General de Gaulle A ireless propagandist and fluent in it should be tested by the avoid discovery.
vocation. To many of them an would probably step in with a bid apenker, ho has so far been against simple question: "Will it or will
It is not possible either
more militant activities, but execution, with all its grim sur- for power.
may change it not help to prevent erime 7"
Both he and his followers assert visit to Moscow prove or disprove these argu- roundings, is the very negution at they will not be the first to policy.
Political start open bloodshed, although the Should capital punishment, ments, except to say that when of their devoted work.
commentators in Paris added a proviso that say that Thorez has had to do some then, still find a place in a sys- there were 250 capital offences An execution demoralises the
The might be forced
to to do so by very hard talking in Moscow tem of British justice that is
explain away just why the based upon fact and experience crimes of robbery and violence life of a prison for weeks, b common than sides creating the worst kind ↑
munists lost first place in the muni- sentiment and were far more
cipal elections, morbid excitement outside the
rather than tradition?
they are today.
to
General has
vents."
40% of the people back de Gaulle
General Charles de Gaulle.
his that
Com-
His companion on the trip. Lau- rent Casanova,
moro
revolu- tionary in outlook and has had by rapid rise to his present position on his sweeping victory in the recent the Centrai Committee municipal elections, now has
the French Communist Party, support of 10 percent of the elec He openly advocates violence and Poraic...
__is_a_trained military tactician.
In answering this question, I I can only state my own view prison walls. must first point out that capital founded upon my experience as In Peacetime punishment is essentially a sur Home Secretary. It is that vival from a totally different most murderers do not seem to ASTLY, I do not consider that penal system, in which fear”
the fear
of The State should in peace- j Ile is without direct reprezenta. and retribution were practical- be influenced by
commit time take human life.
tion in the Assembly, although ly the sole motives of punish hanging when they
their crimes.
Gaullist The more I have heard in re-deputies have openly formed D
"Inter-group." and twice ment.
the cent years of the terrible num- that number are credited with be- A high percentage of
ing his sympathisers.
The real deterrent to crime
to help themselves.
72
de'
The Problem is Now Schuman's France's parties of the
of the
Centre,
and
Fact and Expérience murders known to the police ber of executions on the Con- De Gaulle has declared that he the Socialists, Rodicals, and Popular UNTIL the first half of the are committed by the insane, tinent, the more deeply I have would not gain assume responsibi- Republicans, Jave almost 50 per In the recent municipal elections he wants the Constitution clinnged nineteenth century the and most of the others are the felt that it is the duty of they in France without power, and cent of the seats in the Assembly. death penalty was imposed for result of fits of passion. --British-Government-to-show in order to give him that power. their joint poll was 20 percent.
An ardent patriot, the General This was the country's answer to hundreds of small offences, and
by the abolition of the death believes in the ability of the French Ramadier's Government, which was
theso parties made up from it was the fashion to say that the more ruthless was the law, is not the particular kind of penalty its refusal to fall back pop
upon an antiquated lex talionis He is by no means-cffusive-about-provoked-de-Gaulle-to-declare that -the-fewer criminals there would punishment, but the certainty and itself to take human life.
the Marshall Plan, even though his the Government no longer reflected Communist opponents yell that de French opinion. of detection. In the few cases
tried
to build up by Ramadier a puppet supported 15 For these reasons, I consider Gaulle
would American
strong Centre party which money. Fact and experience proved where a murderer thinks about
that the abolition of capital eventually the kind of punishment, a life punishment should be included break down the system of French the
One of his principal aims is to perhaps carry the country through
present
political and contrary and the death penalty was restrict- sentence of imprisonment would, in the Criminal Justice Bill, and bureaucracy and sack half the civil crisis. He failed,
It was expected that Blum would ed to murder and certain I believe, be as effective a de- that there should be no
such servants.
While this is acclaimed by most succeed, and again, oven offences of treason, treachery terrent as the death penalty. compromises as a period of ex-French people they also fear that de luence was insufficient to get com-
the sabotage against
periment or the grading of Gaulle may use dictator methods to bined support. murder.
The problem. Is now Schuman's. achieve his purpose.
be.
the
and
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Parallel with the changes in attitude of Home Secretaries; to a greater extent who used
As their powers of reprieve. the period advanced, new legis, lation was passed that raised the age to 18 at which a mur-
made infanticide no longer capital offence.
to
on the whole ragamadolio and from Sopping Overcote, yet the
social
his in-
the people who
to rop-re-sent, Mimsle cl-ec-ted them?
Of coures, boy.. Well, if the people who el-ce-ted
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber. wrong, is it worth taking any risk at all on so serious a mutter?
I believe that it is, for THE staggering of schedules Incident at Nether Sickening last nine yards of acctvilsed ferro-
flexite for the whelve-sockets, the following reasons.
is such an intricate matter that the smallest mistake in the No wonder idle tongues aro waz Little Bo-Pest
ging. Nether Sickening is 71 miles First, I am not prepared figures may have a superb effect derer could be executed, and abandon the hope of reforming
DAD-DY, are M.PS sup-pos-ed mayor, Mr Granpound, was among
when for in those present a the murderer.
tumble-cum-trivy: as The death penalty is an act stance the substitution of 9834 Stopcorner, representing Miss Aux- The result has been that the of despair. The majority of (Barnstaple) for 1176 (Hythe). terity Pudding 1947, broke a tin of Smith or Jones don't want a Bill to.
was made by Miss Kg-dust on the bows of a gigantic be' pas-sed, Smith or Jones ought to not hardened Thaspor, Thuath private thecretary, community andcepan. murderers. are
The mayor of Nether. Sickening, on whom he relies for frequent ex-
Mrs Waddler, invited Mr Grampound criminals. Many of them first offenders, and there is 21 planations of what he is supposed to
on to the dais, and it was remarked considerable body of evidence be doing.
that. the mayor of Sopping Overcato This figure is so small that it to be had from prison officials
darted a look of fire at the Pudding "Does this mistake matter much?" may well be asked whether it to the effect that, where murasked Suct, Wall, thir" thaid Mith Queen. is worth making a change derers are reprieved and Thasper, The Minithtes rang up- When so few executions take subsequently released, they to thay that it doethn't make then- The Strabismus rocket
average number of executions
a year between 1987 and 1946 has fallen to about 12.
placé.
It is urged also that the death penalty, although it in seldom carried into effect, acts as a power in reserve to deter criminals from murder..
usually make good.
are
am Secondly, I convinced that executions place an in-
strain tolerable
upon many prison governors and officers.
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