The Archive · 1936

Storm in Chamber of Deputies

Paris, July 25.

During the course of 'a heated session, the Chamber of Deputies yesterday invalidated the election of 'M, Philippe Henrlot, Rightist leader from Bordeaux, by a vote of 230 to 'During on attack on M, Henrlot by a Communist orator, a woman inter~ rupted the speaker' and had to be removed by Republican Guards from the building. Communist deputies made menacing gestures toward the public gallery following the Incident. A noisy tumult ensued and President Edouard Herriot suspended the sitting—Havas,

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