HERRIOT BLUNDERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12094, 23 March 1925, Page 7

HERRIOT BLUNDERS

"BANKERS' CATHOLICISM” REFERENCE TO CHURCH STARTS > FIGHT AMONG DEPUTIES. MARQUIS ORDERED OUT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. (Received March 22, 3.5 p.m.l PARIS. March 21. In the Chamber of Deputies during the evening there were scones of almost unparalleled violence in which oppos* ins' deputies freely indulged in fisti. cuffs. The violence occurred at the end o( the debate, which until then had been orderly, on the withdrawal of tha French Embassy at the Vatican. The sitting was suspended. The trouble arose from M. Herriot’s remark, in winding up the debate, admitting the good work Catholicism had done m the past, but adding: “But then it was pur© Catholicism, not the bankers’ Catliolicism of to-day.” On the resumption of the sitting. Marquis Do Ferronays, of the Right, who protested against the Premier’s remark, said it was a grave insult to the whole of Christendom. He wag ordered to leave the chamber but he refused, and the uproar was renewed. The Marquis finally left the Chamber, accompanied by friends, singing the “Marseillaise.” Subsequently the Chamber passed a vote of confidence in the Government by 325 votes to 251. The French Radical-Socialist Government has decided to recall the French Embassy at the Vatican.