Word: marines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...