One of the chief triumphs of militant Corsican Jean Chiappe as Prefect of Paris Police was to stop Paris autoists from tooting horns after midnight. Helsingfors followed suit, as did Tokyo. And in London fortnight ago Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha decreed silent nights (TIME, Sept. 10). Last week Spanish policemen set out to enforce the same rule in Madrid.
Spanish taximen are men of honor, proud as hidalgos, and members of a Socialist union. Word went around the bodegas that cabbies were being arrested for exercising their primal right to toot...
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