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...Amid pandemonium a Socialist motion to lower the Imperial flag was howled down. Disgusted Socialist and Communist Deputies marched out in a body. Later that day 1,000 Monarchists met in Berlin to hear & cheer "a message from our most gracious Kaiser and King," Wilhelm II, who was represented by his fifth son, Prince Oscar...
...Herriot left the tribune dozens of Deputies sprang from their seats to wring his hand, clap his broad back?but soon afterward the chamber voted 4O2-to-187 to reject the Herriot motion for payment. Amid pandemonium the Premier shouldered his way out of the Chamber, followed by his Cabinet and by so many Deputies that adjournment was expected and some Deputies went home. Instead debate was resumed in the gray dawn and at 6:03 a. m. (while M. Herriot & Cabinet were at the Elysee presenting their resig nations to President Albert Lebrun) the leaderless Chamber voted again, this...
...Brussels there was no pandemonium. The question to pay or to default was not debated by a brawling Belgian Chamber but dispassionately considered by "His Majesty in Council"?that is, by King Albert (who has no Council vote except to break a tie), Premier Count Charles de Broqueville and the rest of the Cabinet...
...Liverpool's once sedate City Council Hall, lusty Communist Councilmen sang "The Red Flag" as they obtained passage for a highly radical civic measure, only to have the Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor, Mr. J. C. Cross shout, "There is no quorum!" This quashed the measure, provoked pandemonium. Rallying round the Right Worshipful Mr. Cross, loyal councilmen sang "God Save The King," to which tune the police cracked many a crown, restored order...
...labor intellectual," Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (onetime President of the Board of Education) who proposed to block the possibility that men like Arthur Henderson (onetime Foreign Secretary) may ever again enter a Cabinet and neglect to fight from the Government bench for "Socialism in our time!" Amid proletarian pandemonium, intellectual Sir Charles moved this resolution: "On assuming office, with or without power, definite Socialist legislation must immediately be promulgated by the next Labor Government and the party shall stand or fall in the House of Commons on the principles in which it has faith." "You will tie your hands...