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Besides a stronger executive, the M.R.P. wanted a bicameral legislature and an independent judiciary; on all counts it was outvoted by narrow majorities. Its spokesmen-eloquent Maurice Schumann and quiet Francois de Menthon-warned against "government by the Assembly. " Veteran Radical-Socialist Edouard Herriot echoed them: "This will inevitably mean dictatorship by the majority party. . . . Separation of legislative and executive powers, the essential foundation of democracy, has been cast to the winds...
...long-familiar French voice last week backed up MRP's stand against the new leftist definition of liberty. Aging Edouard Herriot struck out: "Freedom of the press and freedom of discussion have foundered. . . . We must . . . reconquer our liberties and return to the normal rules of democracy...
Plan Green also provided for an "incident" to provoke German intervention. One idea: to kill Germany's minister to Prague and blame it on the Czechs. The timely intervention of Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier at Munich saved Minister Dr. Ernst Eisenlohr's life...
Bigger issues were at stake than just filling the seat vacated by ailing Edouard Lacroix, Bloc Populaire member. This time no Bloc candidate ran. Aside from a Social Crediter who was just practicing, the contest was between candidates of Quebec's two major parties-ex-Premier Adelard Godbout's Liberals and Premier Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale. The Liberals hoped to reduce the Government's slim majority in the Legislative Assembly (lower House), then turn the Liberal-dominated Legislative Council (upper House) loose on Government bills, and force an early general election...
Other standouts: a competently sumptuous Nude at the Mirror, by Georges Capon; Edouard Goerg's fuzzy, dreamy Midnight Bouquet, reminiscent of the 19th-Century Romanticist Odilon Redon; and Astarté, by André Marchand. Marchand, in his 30s, is considered one of the "younger" painters. His picture of green flesh, black water and blue sand was startling in a show full of surprises. The most surprising thing about it was that he had painted the sky blue...