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About 3 a. m. elephantine Speaker Edouard Herriot let spectators stream back into the Chamber galleries. He revealed that during the secret session prominent Rightist Deputy Louis Marin had introduced a motion of no-confidence in the Daladier Government. The "voting urns"-dark brown wooden boxes-had been passed. The count was announced officially as 239-to-1 in support of the Cabinet-with more than 300 abstentions...
...Edouard Daladier were a "Dictator" he had only to sit tight in office. No precedent required him to consider that his Cabinet, having won less than half of all votes that could be cast, had no democratic right to remain in office-but the Premier took that view. He resigned. So France (and the Allies) began another bad week...
...unduly upset-not even when a report got about that the Cabinet had fallen because one box of ballots had accidentally gone uncounted. Already those in the know had heard who the next Premier would be: Paul Reynaud, brilliant Finance Minister, considered No. 2 in the Cabinet of which Edouard Daladier had been...
Giving the probable cause for Premier Edouard Daladier's resignation yesterday, Philippe Jules Fernaud Baldensperger, professor of Comparative Literature, reminisced last night about the days when Daladier was one of his pupils at the University of Lyons...
Alarmed, Premier Edouard Daladier gave in to the complaints and promised: 1) to limit censorship to "military, diplomatic and national necessities"; 2) to centralize all propaganda in a responsible Ministry of Public Information. Until now press censorship has been controlled by a mere Commissariat of Information, radio censorship by its separate bureau. The jobs now have Cabinet status. Taking note of the Daladier promises, the Chamber gave the Government a 450-to-0 vote of confidence. "I trust," threatened the Premier, "that I shall not be asked in a few days to put an end to this liberty...