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...Their places were taken by young, rugged backbenchers from among the party's 183 Deputies. A dozen of these charged up the red-carpeted steps toward the presidential tribune, plowed through a starchy cordon of dignified ushers in tailcoats. They installed young, good-looking Gerard Duprat on the rostrum. In the uproar none heard his speech, but when...
President suspended the session and set off the sirens to clear the galleries, the entire Communist body swarmed around the rostrum. Center and right Deputies tried to leave the chamber, but the Communists hemmed them in, punching and kicking. A former M.R.P. minister, Fran-gois de Menthon, was knocked down, trampled and, minus two teeth, was taken to a hospital. The Communists stayed in the chamber all night...
When the session was resumed next day, Duprat was still on the rostrum. The non-Communists left the hall again. Jolly General Maurice Marquant was ordered to eject them with a hundred Republican guards. After the guards marched into the chamber, reporters and Deputies waiting outside could hear cries of pain and anger and the screams of female Reds, who stretched out on the floor, forcing the guards to drag them out. One by one, the Deputies were ejected, noses bleeding, clothing torn. General Marquant mopped his brow. "What a scrap," he said, "and I'm such a kindly...
Crommelin had the Navy in a spot. A disciplinary court martial would provide him with the rostrum and the martyrdom he seemed to want. But many once-sympathetic Navymen, embarrassed by his taunting evasion of discipline, heartily wished he would shut...
President Edman was not surprised when several students trooped up to the rostrum. Such impromptu declarations are not unusual at Wheaton, a little (1,500 students), nondenominational college which still bears the stamp of its strict fundamentalist heritage: no movies, smoking, card-playing, dancing or drinking, a 10 p.m. weekday curfew. But as the first students finished speaking, a surge of confessional fervor swept through the auditorium...