Word: renaudel
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General Balbo, bursting into the room, found his compatriot Italian Deputy Carlo Costamagna reviling and reviled by French Deputy Pierre Renaudel. It appeared that Fascist Costamagna had been fulsomely lauding the Fascist regime when stocky Socialist Renaudel burst out, "Yours is a country without a free parliament, and there is no justice where liberty does not exist...
...Apologize?" cried M. Renaudel. "Never to representatives of the Government which ordered the murder of Matteotti...
...Bravo! Bravo Renaudel!" cried several Frenchmen while some Italians taunted "Isn't he pretty?" and others cried, "Down with France...
...Italians then moved off in a body down the hall, summoned by Il Duce who had already heard of the rumpus and had at once called up General Balbo from Rome. General Balbo immediately demanded either a formal apology from Socialist Renaudel, who again refused to apologize, or the ousting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union from the premises. It was thereupon ousted by Secretary General of the League of Nations Sir Eric Drummond...
Struck with M. Renaudel's complete indifference to what appeared from its tone an insult, a young millionaire Deputy of the Right asked: "Are you really a veterinary surgeon?" "Why do you ask?" queried Renaudel innocently...