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Final examinations, however, are still in progress, so many of the men are occupied in their spare hours. Professor G. B. Doriot G. B. '22 is acting as proctor in the examinations...
After a three months' vacation, the French Parliament last week reassembled. Its first act was to free four Communist Deputies - MM. Cachin, Duclos, Marty, Doriot-who were imprisoned during the summer for sedition. It was made clear to the four that as soon as the Chamber of Deputies ended its session they must go back to prison and "spend their vacations there." Deputy Franklin-Bouillon and a small party of his friends resigned from the Socialist party and formed the Radical Unionist party, the eleventh in French politics. The session continued...
After this the Communists had their turn. For a solid six hours their speakers occupied the tribunal. Their arguments were of the usual Bolshevik brand. Deputy Doriot, the most notorious of his crew, declared...
This angered sexagenarian, one-eyed Deputy Picot. He jumped out of his place, rushed up the steps of the tribunal, attempted to drag Doriot to the floor. In a moment the Chamber was in an uproar. Deputies and ushers rushed toward the struggling men. M. Franklin-Bouillon, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, ran full tilt into Communist Deputy Bourlois, who struck him a resounding punch in the face. Staggered, M. Bouillon stepped back a pace, blood dripping from his nose, and in a second more he closed with the Communist and they rolled to the floor...
Startling discoveries of Communist activities were made by the Paris police. In a campaign which sent 120 men to prison, the police entered the house of Deputy Doriot, Communist leader, seized important documents relative to Morocco, including an offensive plan against the French for the Riffian Army and a considerable amount of correspondence from French officers on the Moroccan front, much of which had apparently been stolen. Proceedings against Deputy Marty, another Communist, were pending, for an article which he contributed to L'Humanité, Communist newspaper, in which he incited French troops to disobedience...