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...jumped Britain's Alfred Robens with a suggestion to Assembly President François de Menthon: "Representatives will find themselves in great difficulty in determining which is better-Scotch whisky or Irish whisky.* Could you use your presidential influence to get both countries to send a case of their product to each representative so that we might have our views properly defined when we meet next time...
President suspended the session and set off the sirens to clear the galleries, the entire Communist body swarmed around the rostrum. Center and right Deputies tried to leave the chamber, but the Communists hemmed them in, punching and kicking. A former M.R.P. minister, Fran-gois de Menthon, was knocked down, trampled and, minus two teeth, was taken to a hospital. The Communists stayed in the chamber all night...
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...
Last week, the French took over. To the rostrum stepped François de Menthon, a mild-looking law professor with a scraggly mustache and professorially stooped shoulders, who had been a member of the French underground and was now chief French prosecutor at Nürnberg. In a daylong oration he opened France's case, which deals with slave labor, looting and atrocities in six occupied countries. Said he: "A tortured peoples' craving for justice is the basic foundation of France's call...
...Menthon, the 20 Boches in the dock were not the only guilty ones. The entire German people was to blame, he declared, for Naziism merely had exploited their "power of latent barbarism . . . one of the deepest and most tragic facets of the German soul. . . . Certain of their eternal and deep-seated aspirations have found monstrous expressions under the Hitler regime; their entire responsibility is involved. . . . Their re-education is indispensable...