La Semaine du Parlement
La Chambre ¶Was the scene of a typically exuberant riot amid which books and inkwells flew when Deputy Charles Hueber from Alsace-Lorraine attempted to speak for the first time in two years in the only language he can speak, and was howled down by the Communists because his "Alsatian" sounds like "German."
¶Twice voted confidence in Premier Poincaré when he presented the war department budget for 1927, calling for an expenditure of 5,869,000,090 francs ($212,204,400). Though this represents the expenditure of 1,300,000,000 more francs than last year, the new...
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