Word: caillaux
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...Premier Paul Painlevé, followed by his ministers, took his seat on the Government bench, the Right parties of the Chamber arose, yelled: "Amnesty for Lenoir and Bolo Pasha."* The Premier began to read his ministerial policy. He touched upon the War sacrifices made by France. "Caillaux, get up the dead!" cried deputies (the bitter insinuation that the dead were turning in their graves because the hated Caillaux was again Minister of Finance...
...appeal," continued the Premier, "to the patriotism of the country." "Even to that of Caillaux," rejoined Royalist Deputy Ybarnegaray. M. Painlevé went on. He referred to the rights of the wounded; the latter part of his sentence was drowned in a roar from the extreme Left (Communist) benches of: "Chemin des Dames" (name of a French disaster which happened during the Premier's first term of office...
...Caillaux sat, his fingers nervously tapping the desk, his bald head alternately red and white. Several times he rose to defend himself against the flagellations of his enemies; each time the friendly arm of M. Painlevé shot out to restrain him. Six times the Premier arose to his defense, twice M. Briand, the Foreign Minister, rose on a similar errand...
Then up jumped Charles Bertrand, ardent Nationalist. He roared: "Have we reached the point when we must choose between bankruptcy and M. Caillaux? Bankruptcy would be bet ter, for the reinstatement of M. Caillaux shows moral bankruptcy, which is infinitely the worse...
Pointing his index finger at M. Caillaux, he continued: "You have never ceased to protest your innocence. In that case, you ought to have demanded a retrial. You have preferred to come back here by the back door of electoral amnesty. . . . You doubted the possibility of victory [in the War] and risked the ruin of France. Not only do I refuse my confidence, but I consider your presence on the Government bench a defiance of the dead and living...