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Show FRENCH PATRIOTS F01 FOR DEFENSE i i , . j TARIS, Sept. 30. A new organization 'called the "Republican League for Na-i Na-i tional Defense." with An tone Dubost, pi evident, of the senate; Paul Deschanel, pi evident of the chamber of deputies, and Leon Bourgeois, .minister of state, as honorary presidents, is causing wide-jsptead wide-jsptead comment In the press. The key-I key-I note i rogramme of the league anpears to ' lie "no peace with assassins before our (Victory and their chastisement." and the ! dtrecr object of the organization is to ! fight acainst all tendencies toward a '. ruptured and inconclusive p-ace. i The membership of the league includes .representatives of all political parties and even some former extremists, such as Leopold Lacour, who was once a contributor contribu-tor to the anarchist organ. "Libeitalre." The conservative organs see in the league "an organization against treason.' i wiiil'-' the socialist organ Hiimanile in-i in-i quires whether it is intended to sunnort : the preposition for annexation to the Wt ! iv, pk of the Rhine. Members of .lie U-ague say that what thy propose is I "to denounce every cowardly argument, evt:ry sophistry and everytlfl.ig depressing 'and equivocal which, under the color of !'. jniaiiilariaritem, w ould betray human- |