SCENES IN FRENCH CHAMBER
“UNPARALLELED VIOLENCE” DEPUTY RESENTS REMARK BY PREMIER FREE EXCHANGE OF BLOWS By Telegraph —Press AssociationCopyright (Rec. Match 22, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, March 21. In the Chamber of Deputies during the evening there were scenes of almost unparalleled violence, in which opposing deputies freely indulged in fisticuffs, terminating a hitherto orderly debate on the withdrawal of the Embassy at the Vatican. The sitting wat, suspended.
The trouble arose from a remark by the Premier (M. Herriot) in winding up the debate, admitting the good work that Catholicism had done in the past, and adding: “But, then, it was pure Catholicism, not the bankers’ Catholicism of to-day.”
On the resumption, a member of the Right, Marquis Deferronays, who protested against the Premier’s remark, said that it was a grave insult to entire Christendom. He. was ordered to leave the Chamber, but refused. The uproar was renewed, the Marquis finally leaying, ncconipanied by his friends singing the “Marseillaise.” Subsequently the Chamber passed a vote of confidence in the Government by 325 votes to 251.—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 151, 23 March 1925, Page 9
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