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...weapons with which the old French National Assembly battered the 24 postwar Cabinets of the preDe Gaulle Fourth Republic into helplessness and defeat, the favorite by far was the deadly instrument of interpellations (questions in debate). The technique was to pop a question at a minister, then toss in a series of motions, and demand a debate and a vote on every single one of them. As perfected in the 1952 debate that stymied the Tunisian reform program of Premier Pinay's government, this method of ministerial massacre has been known ever since as " Tunisification...
Below him, in the well of the House, in a casket blanketed by white asters and lilies, lay the body of his friend and prede cessor, the late William B. Bankhead of Jasper, Ala. Before the casket sat Franklin Roosevelt, his face weary and sad; beside him the Cabinet. Behind the Bankhead family were ranged the House and Senate...
...Dublin last week a mildly Fascist group of veterans of the Irish Free State army and the prede Valera Republican army was organized as "The Free State Army Comrades Association." President: Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, member of the Dail and good friend of former President William T. Cosgrave. Their first pronunciamento attacked Communism "or any disguised form of it introduced surreptitiously into the country." In addition the Comrades Association attacked long-necked President de Valera and his tariff war with Great Britain: "We regard as charged with extremely dangerous potentialities the new fashion of branding as traitors certain public...