Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international is mischievous, Everything national is useful and fertile. The Croix de Feu is one of the soundest elements in the country. It wants to defend the family." When election returns were counted last week Communism was not only in the circle of admissible doctrines, but definitely in the Chamber of Deputies with 72 seats...
This was the largest representation Communists have ever won in France. It meant that, with the Socialists of varying degrees of pinkness, the Popular Front had an overwhelming victory of 378 seats, enough and to spare to guarantee the formation of the next Cabinet when the Chamber reconvenes on June...
...Popular Front, should become the next Premier of France, but comparatively few wiseacres thought that he would. Party leaders knew perfectly well last week that their huge vote was less a vote for Socialism than a vote against the bourgeois Radical Socialist Party which has dominated the Chamber since 1895, and which most Frenchmen feel was responsible for the Stavisky Case and the black eye that scandal gave their country. For years the technique of French Socialists has been to dodge the responsibility of government, heap scorn on those who must accept...
Hence last week there was neither a Chamber of Deputies nor a Senate to wit ness the envelope's opening. A Chamber election was run off with comparative decorum (two killed, 50 wounded) four days after King Fuad died. Result was an overwhelming victory for the Wafd which clinched 118 seats at once, expected when all votes are counted to hold nearly 200 of the Chamber's 235 seats...
With the Communists alone having won as many seats in the new Chamber as the whole Rightist coalition put together, the reaction of Frenchmen to the siren song of Fascism has formed the most violent political gesture of any recent election. For the victory of the Left can be explained only by the fact that the French have made up their minds once and for all that the propositions of the Croix de Feu and the parties of the "interests" hold no lure any longer. In holding the fort against the attacks of the reactionaries during the trying days...