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Speaker Sam Rayburn himself descended from his rostrum to try to repair the damage. Said he: "I am not happy about our situation in the world, nor in the U.S., nor in this House . . . I notice this House, in glee, and . . . without a great deal of reason, cutting the appropriations in this bill . . . below what those in charge, and who are supposed to know the most about world affairs, said was necessary." But the Vorys cuts carried-the most important one by 221 to 137 (160 Republicans and 61 Democrats-mostly Southern -voted for, 127 Democrats and ten Republicans voted...
Soon after Taft mounted the rostrum, the droning of an airplane somewhat drowned the remarks of one of the speakers. The plane circled, flaunting a streamer which read: Win with Eisenhower April 29. The crowd was amused, angry, or indifferent, depending on individual political sentiment...
Mounting the Assembly rostrum without applause last week, he took a businessman's view of France's finances: 1) on falling foreign exchange: "There can be no dishonoring of [France's] signature. She will pay in gold"; 2) on the empty Treasury: "A new loan will have to be negotiated"; 3) on the budget: "We must settle a deficit of 400 billion francs." Said he: "The. remedies are neither of the right nor of the left. They bear no parliamentary labels. They are technical measures to be taken in a climate of political truce." Cautiously he skirted...
...scarred, crippled man wearing not one but two hearing aids hobbled painfully to the rostrum with the help of a pair of canes. A tail-coated usher darted forward to help hoist him to the speaker's platform. There he grasped a table for support and then gulped a handful of pills. A hush fell over France's Chamber of Deputies as Georges Heuillard, deputy from the Seine-Inférieure, began to speak. His misshapen body and his scarred, waxen face were his honorable credentials...
...oppressive silence, two ushers helped Georges Heuillard down the steps from the rostrum. Suddenly, from the Gaullists on the far right of the bright red horseshoe of seats to the Communists on the far left, the diverse and divided politicians of France leapt to their feet and exploded into applause. Ex-Defense Minister Jules Moch, whose hatred of the Germans is twofold (he is Jewish, and lost his son in the Resistance), warmly embraced Heuillard. Robert Schuman, whose efforts to sell German rearmament to his countrymen were the target of Heuillard's passionate attack, advanced toward him, tears...