Word: assemblymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assemblymen, more intent on security than on freedom, voted down a guarantee of liberty of political expression. They did vote to prohibit press ownership to 1) industrialists; 2) administrative officials; 3) persons of large commercial or farm interests. Effect of this would be to: 1) abolish that part of the French press that has collaborated with Vichy (most French papers have); 2) revive the Vichy-suppressed papers and those which had ceased to publish rather than play the Nazi game...
...Assembly meets in Algiers, François de Menthon, Commissioner of Justice, began a speech. He spoke of 288 Vichyites who had been accused of treason, collaboration and other crimes against France and Frenchmen, but had not yet been tried and punished. No sound came from the 80-odd Assemblymen...