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...will not lack material for oratory if he takes the rostrum on the anniversary of the Munich beer-hall Putsch this week...
This week, for the first time since June 1940, the voice of Metropolitan France will be heard. From the rostrum in a high-ceilinged chamber, long the home of the Algerian financial assembly, the first session of the French Provisional Consultative Assembly will be called to order in Algiers. Seated in semicircular rows ringing the rostrum, 84 men will represent France according to democratic parliamentary procedure, at least 40 of them representatives of the highly organized French underground itself. They will reflect all political hues, from Conservatives to Communists. They will speak for a renascent France...
Watson's endorsement caught Johnston in the middle of a speech to oilmen in Fort Worth. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's slick young (46) president stepped off the rostrum, gave the press a statement : "I am not a candidate for any public office. I do not want to live at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue. I would rather live at either end of Main Street of any good American town...
...conference opened, Chairman Spangler made a drastic change in the scenery : a single pottery elephant, with drooping trunk, was removed from the stage, replaced by two elephants with heads and trunks suitably rampant. As the gavel fell, no one could doubt who was in charge. Chairman Spangler occupied the rostrum; Senators Vandenberg and Robert A. Taft sat front center. Swiftly Harrison Spangler entrusted the writing of the foreign and domestic statements to committees headed respectively by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, told them to go behind closed doors. The first session then ended...
Looking just about as active as it ever did is the Post-War Council. It has held one forum with Senator Pepper on the rostrum, and is planning several others, one for this week. Meanwhile, the language clubs have been going along pretty well; a new French club may be formed as a revolt against the exclusive, strictly French-speaking Cercle Francais...