In his ministerial declaration, Mr. Herriot announced, on June 17, that wishing to "give France social peace", he tabled the same day, in the name of the government, "a draft broad amnesty which only excluded traitors and rebels.

Here through the low door of the “small revision” he admits to the benefit of this measure those condemned for “intelligence and commerce with the enemy” Indeed, as we will read below, Mr. René Renoult, Minister of Justice, considered that “in the interest of justice and truth” the referral to the Indictment Chamber was necessary for the case of the three wretches Marion, Goldsky and Landau, found guilty of this crime and sentenced, on May 15, 1918, unanimously by the members of the Paris war council, the first to ten years, the second and the third to eight years of forced labor.

“The interests of justice and truth” did not require the president of the council to bring up the abominable affair of the Bonnet Rouge again. She was judged, well judged! These are other "interests" that Mr. Herriot wanted to safeguard and first of all those of a government docile to the demands of a party which today gives its measure by showering with its generosity those who tried to deliver the homeland.

The president of the council believes, by acting in this way, to work to “give the country social peace” A policy which wants to close the borders. to good French people and which opens the prison doors to the “rabble” achieves another goal and leads to anarchy. His failure today with regard to Marion; of Goldsky and Landau is an outrage to the fighters, an insult to our dead.

The initiative of the Minister of Justice

The Havas Agency communicated to us yesterday afternoon the following note: We are able to announce that Mr. René Renoult, Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, has decided to refer today to the Chamber of Updates indictment, and with a view to a new examination and in application of art. 20 of the law of April 19, 1921 on amnesty, the file of the Marion-Goldsky affair…

It should be noted that under the terms of the above-mentioned article, the review of a trial is subject to the sending of the file by the Minister of Justice to the Chamber of Indictments. The new fact provided for by the usual procedure is not necessary when the case is admitted to the benefit of the law of 1921. The referral to the Chamber of Indictments is of right when the conviction has been pronounced by the Court Martial or a special court and the review is requested by the convicted person or a member of his family
It is subject to the favorable opinion of the Keeper of the Seals, when the conviction has been pronounced by an ordinary war council. Once seized of the file, the Indictment Chamber has all the powers of the investigating judge. In particular, it may order the provisional release of the convicted person.

When the file is favorable to the thesis of revision, the case is referred to the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation, which then judges in last resort.

As of now, Landau is released

To the previous note, we can add the information provided by the Ministry of Justice: The file of the Marion-Goldsky-Landau affair had recently been examined by the Ministry of War with a view to a possible suspension of sentence to be granted to the three convicted by application of article 150 of the Code of Military Justice. This article provides for the conditional release of a convict for health reasons.

The medical conclusions were negative regarding Goldsky and Marion, but they were affirmative for Landau, in whose favor General Nollet, Minister of War, signed a suspension of sentence.

Goldsky and Marion remain detained

Let us specify that Landau, released Friday evening and having spent the night with a relative, was taken yesterday to. a clinic. As for the two other convicts, they remain detained: Goldsky in Clairvaux, and Marion in Fresnes, until a decision is made.

The review procedure

As soon as the file of the Bonnet Rouge affair has reached him, the Attorney General, Mr. Scherdlin, will appoint an Advocate General who will be responsible for preparing this file with a view to its transmission to the indictment chamber. This will appoint a reporting advisor who, either directly or by letters rogatory, will carry out, like an investigating judge, all investigations on the merits, confrontations, hearings of witnesses and questioning of defendants. He may subsequently order their release. When the case is ready, if the court considers that there is no reason to modify the decision taken, it will rule that there is no reason to admit the request.

If, on the contrary, it recognizes that there is reason for a new decision, it will order the referral of the request and the procedure to the criminal chamber of the court of cassation which will rule definitively on the merits as the trial court vested with a sovereign power of appreciation.