"The Republic is in danger!" When eight months ago (TIME, June 12) the then Premier Daladier first raised that cry in the Senate it seemed no more than a useful political trick to whip Senators into line. Last week every Frenchman realized that the Republic was in danger, and to pull it out Edouard Daladier was made Premier of France again.
For the second week ferocious rioting over L'Affaire Stavisky appalled Paris. With their horsehair plumes nodding and polished helmets glittering, mounted patrols of the Garde Republicaine moved slowly up & down...
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