Word: dormann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There had been a parade of wounded veterans in protest against debt ratification. The police had tried to stop the parade. In the Chamber, Deputy Maurice Dormann, representing the veterans, rose to make Minister of the Interior André Tardieu admit that during the parade, the bland face of Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had been twice slapped by an outraged woman. Minister Tardieu assured the honorable deputy that the face of M. Chiappe had not so been slapped. Veteran Dormann declared he had seen it with his own eyes. He suddenly shouted: "As a Deputy, as a war veteran...
...minutes the face of M. Chiappe threatened to upset the government of France. Prime Minister Poincaré and Minister Tardieu pleaded anxiously with Deputy Dormann, pointed to the gleeful faces of the Opposition, told M. Dormann that he was being used as a parliamentary tool to overturn the government by creatures afraid to attack the government directly on the score of debt ratification. Deputy Dormann hesitated, cooled off, let the "crisis" pass...