It is suggested that Eugene Chen has been incarcerated because of kis bitter attacks on the foreigners in his "Min Pao." It is impossible to believe that any foreign Legation Requested that he be imprisoned process of law, no matter how wild his comment." We do not do those things in our own countries and we do not ask it in (China. "If Mr. Eugene Chen libelled 'Anyone, there are Ubel laws. to protect' the age rived person. There!
civil bel laws and. criminal Uibel laws, "Under the law, a man gan have every protection' against the freedom of the press of modern lism. Nek newspaper will aippress an important story which davolyes a public service out of fear} Wt the operation of there laws; yet, newspaper courts a law suit or enjoys the publicity of the courtroom. Mr. Chen may hate felt himself safe in Peking, under the: protection of a government which bad entered into an agreement with his party, but even if he trans-grossed reason, if he overstepped the mark of good sense, he is entitled to all the processes of legal protection, for in any civilized country, even the guilty must be Protected by the state against the Possibility that there may be justification for the act,
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