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...Paris last week the Chamber of Deputies held its first secret session since World War I. For weeks the word had gone round that Middle-of-the-Road Premier Edouard Daladier might be slipping and perhaps the secret session would be full of banana peels. It lasted 31 hours, with only three recesses. Then journalists and an eager Paris crowd were permitted to swarm into the galleries. They looked down on a Chamber filled with good humor. Some Deputies greeted the crowd with handclaps, others waved to the galleries. Abrupt silence fell as the urns were produced. The Chamber...
...debaters were the familiar trio of Edouard Daladier, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler. The subject was the well-worn proposition: "Resolved, that the Allied cause is just." As usual, the speakers roamed far & wide from their subjects. The French Premier, for instance, got very bitter about the "madmen who rule at Berlin." The German Chancellor was also given to personal insults and mockery. The British Prime Minister meandered among the non-belligerents. All in all, last week's speeches were mainly pep talks for the home folks. Certainly this round in the European war of words did not change many...
...Chamber then proceeded to re-elect its regular President (Speaker), popular Edouard Herriot. Once the Soviet Union's most potent friend in France, Speaker Herriot last week denounced Moscow as "a regime seeking to crush the weak," called for maximum French aid to the Finns, brought the Deputies to their feet shouting, "Long live Finland!" The last three Reds said nothing, but it did not appear that they could stay, even if meek. Vice Premier Camille Chautemps introduced a bill to expel every last Red in France from office - from Chamber, Senate, from national, provincial and municipal offices...
...French Premier Edouard Daladier fractured a bone in one foot while alighting from...
...political link with Italy's Stato Corporativo, Germany's Third Reich. When war started, with German agents swarming over the country, trying to buy up Brazilian papers to counteract Brazil's Allied sympathies, President Vargas clamped on the press a censorship as tight and thorough as Edouard Daladier's control of the French press...