Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Cabinet formed by firmly moderate M. Camille Chautemps, after waveringly radical M. Leon Blum had thrown up his hands and resigned (TIME, June 28), entrenched itself last week by securing votes of confidence in both Chamber and Senate, but only after some of the wildest scenes in French parliamentary history...
Sergeants-at-arms in the Chamber of Deputies had to keep separating members who loudly threatened to thrash each other. On three occasions the Speaker, portly M. Edouard Herriot, was unable to get order by ringing his bell, had to suspend the session by the classic French gesture of clapping on his silk hat and waddling out. Twenty Communist Deputies rushed in a fist-shaking, hoarse-shouting phalanx toward the centre of the Chamber, and only concerted efforts by all the sergeants-at-arms checked their assault. In the Senate it was the duty of former Premier Blum, since...
...Senate seemed more than ready to vote to moderates like Chautemps & Bonnet full powers to deal-with the French crisis which they had been unwilling to give to radicals like Blum & Auriol, but it was an exciting question last week whether the Chamber, which had twice supported Blum & Auriol on this issue, would now support Chautemps & Bonnet...
...last French election gave a strong Chamber majority to the three parties of the Popular Front. Of these three the misnamed Radical Socialist Party of new Premier Camille Chautemps is actually moderate; the Socialist Party of M. Leon Blum is waveringly radical; and last week it was up to the Communist Party to decide whether to continue shoulder to shoulder with the other two or withdraw and thus break the Popular Front...
...complex intrigue behind the scenes, while sergeants-at-arms were struggling on the Chamber stage with irate but inconsequential legislators, the efforts of the Communists to get something Moscow really wanted in return for their support penetrated via new French Premier Chau-temps even as far as London. His Majesty's Government were extremely near the point of extending "belligerent rights" to the Spanish Rightists last week (see p. 24), when Downing Street received frantic word from the Quai d'Orsay that Premier Chautemps, in order to get his Cabinet over its first rocks in the Chamber, must...