Foreign News: Students in Politics

Conservative Republican and Royalist students combined to prevent Prof. Georges Scelle, Socialist, member of the Ministere des Travaux Publics, from delivering a lecture on international law in the Paris Law School.

Dense crowds of students patrolled the streets of the Latin Quartier, traffic was held up. Here and there, a few venturesome voices sang the Internationale, which was instantly drowned in roars of the Marseillaise. All doors were picketed by groups of students who had wisely provided themselves with food and wine. Shouts of "Conspuez Herriot!" (literally, "Spit upon Herriot!"), "A has Georges...

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