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...equality of teaching services for our children . . . meets with my complete approval . . . We simply cannot live as a free people if we . . . chip away from any member of our society the guarantees given to him by the Lord on the day that person was born, and then reaffirmed with pen and ink in our Constitution...
...rang his silver bell, the Communists and Socialists banged their desks, the Poujadists sang the Marseillaise, and the center looked on in shocked silence. "You are a danger to the Republic," one aroused Deputy shouted at the Poujadists. "Yes-to the republic of cronies," retorted Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen. The Chamber of Deputies, which had been stunned to discover the voters of France had elected 53 vulgar persons called Poujadists to their republic of cronies, was trying to get rid of the fellows by other means...
Poujade had run his candidates under three different labels to catch votes. Several other parties had done the same thing. But now, on this technicality, the Assembly was trying to displace 13 Poujadists. Snapped Poujadist Le Pen: "People cannot be expected to obey laws if the Assembly does not do so itself. If you cannot respect the constitution, at least respect the will of the people...
...orders, getting reports relayed from his wife in the public galleries, barking into the telephone. To a suggestion for a mass walkout, he snorted: "What then? You want to return next day like a beaten dog with your tail between your legs?" Poujade's orders to Le Pen, his unofficial floor manager: filibuster...
Demanding the floor, young, hulking Le Pen announced: "I am going to remind you of some of the rights which you may have forgotten," and began reciting the French constitution. Communists hooted, thumped their desks, and Le Pen read on. Expelled from the tribune by President Le Troquer, Le Pen yielded the floor to "the second of my 52 comrades." "This is sabotage," moaned a Deputy...