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Supple, ambitious Louis Frossard has been a Socialist, a Communist, then got a Cabinet job under Rightist Premier Pierre ("The Deal") Laval, today owns a newspaper called La Justice. Virtually every Paris paper reported he had taken as his office the Continental's super-ornate "Imperial Suite," in which lived for 30 years Eugenie, last Empress of the French -and after Eugenie, none except royal or titled guests until an exception was made for Admiral Byrd-but M. Frossard insisted he had not moved into Eugenie's rooms "because memories would stop me from sleeping." The onetime Communist...
About 3 a. m. elephantine Speaker Edouard Herriot let spectators stream back into the Chamber galleries. He revealed that during the secret session prominent Rightist Deputy Louis Marin had introduced a motion of no-confidence in the Daladier Government. The "voting urns"-dark brown wooden boxes-had been passed. The count was announced officially as 239-to-1 in support of the Cabinet-with more than 300 abstentions...
...Fascist Foreign Minister Count Ciano of Italy (TIME, Dec. 25), which was cut to ribbons by Premier Edouard Daladier's press censorship but reached French radio listeners in broadcasts from Italy, Germany and even America in an assortment of languages which of course included French. Up jumped Rightist Deputy Xavier Vallat to agree for once with Leftist Blum, gave the Chamber other examples...
...months of power, Don Tinto's Popular Front has coped with three Cabinet crises, one revolution and an earthquake. The revolution and at least one of the Cabinet crises were precipitated by the Rightist opposition. Last week Don Tinto had to cope with another Cabinet crisis. This time it was precipitated by the conservative wing of his own Party and Leader Florencio Duran, whom many not so conservative Chileans suspect of being on more than speaking terms with Rightist ex-President Arturo Alessandri...
...sounding-board for his fuzzy ideas. And the Dies Committee may not be at all averse to the idea of exploiting the publicity angles of a fascist movement with a Harvard backdrop. To prove impartiality, the Committee would point with pride to the fact that they had "exposed" another rightist group, as evidence of its impartiality. But they would have set up a straw man and knocked him down; while powerful and significant reactionary forces--for example, Father Coughlin's group and the National Association of Manufacturers--are left alone...