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ç"Briand must be arrested. . . . His Locarno policy is leading him toward the traitorous iniquity of abandoning the Rhineland to Germany. . . . When the mob learns how he is stripping from France her only safeguard, the day will come when M. Briand will be glad to be arrested and jailed beyond the reach of hands that tear and gouge. . . ."

Thus howled, last week, the Royalist organ L'Action Française. Its editor, Léon Daudet, son of Alphonse Daudet, whose Letters from My Mill breathe such quietude, seemingly had written amok. For this there was some excuse. Only the day before His Holiness had placed L'Action on the index ex-purgatorius, had banned it to most of its royalist subscribers who are Roman Catholics.

Helpless with rage, M. Daudet had attacked the man who he thought had turned the Holy See against him—Aristide Briand. Reputedly, Foreign Minister Briand has made an agreement with the Vatican of which one clause is that it shall discourage the obstreperousness of Catholic Royalists in France. As quid pro quo M. Briand is said to have lent his influence upon the side of the Papal candidacy of Archduke Otto for the throne of Hungary (See HUNGARY).