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...closely tied to it) which would set up a complex form of proportional representation which seemed likely to favor the Communists; the electoral setup would emphasize parties rather than candidates-another help to the Communists, the best disciplined party. (Commenting on the voting system, famed French mathematician and Rightist Assemblyman Jacques Bardoux said: "I read these texts once without understanding them. I read them a second, then a third time, pencil in hand. It was in vain . . . so I finally consigned to the Devil this opus born of mating of Socialist and Communist thought...
...York County Medical Society (which, like most Northern medical societies, admits Negroes) protested. So did Dr. Wright. The crusading press attacked A.C.S. editorially and a New York assemblyman prepared a resolution to invoke the state's new anti-race-discrimination...
...Leftist Assemblyman Pierre Villon commented: "We are in a most awkward position. Popular opinion holds many of us responsible for the failures of the Cabinet...
...General sat on the Government bench in the Consultative Assembly. Up for debate came the issue of the purge of collaborationists. Socialist Assemblyman Louis Nogueres shouted an accusation: Minister of State Jules-Jeanneney (President of the last Senate in the Third Republic) had helped the Vichy regime to power in 1940. Was it right that such a man should sit now in Government councils...
...Paris, plump, balding Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, onetime pastry-cook's apprentice, now boss of the French Communists, echoed Pravda: "There are some hundreds of people in France who must be shot and some thousands who must be removed from their posts. By creating delays, some émigrés in the Government . . . risk falling into the plight of the Belgian Government, whose émigrés also learned nothing. The Pierlot Government ... is doomed sooner or later by prostituting itself and calling on foreign aid against the people...