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"In Paris anyone who offended respect for the dead as Blum did would have received the same treatment!" was the Royalist explanation. Nevertheless the life of Premier Albert Sarraut's Cabinet depends on its support in the Chamber by the Socialist Party led by Leon Blum. Almost before Blum's blood clotted on his bandages, Leftist leaders were screaming over every wire leading to the Premier's office demands that the Government smash all Royalist organizations by decree and arrest the Royalist Leaders Leon Daudet and Charles Maurras, editors of L' Action Francaise. When the Chamber convened, Socialist and Communist Deputies made pandemonium. Flustered Premier Sarraut hastily declared that the Cabinet would meet in emergency session with President Albert Lebrun to issue antiRoyalist decrees. This roused the Socialists and Communists to such a roaring frenzy that the Chamber decided to adjourn for the day — an event remarkable because the Chamber had been just about to vote on the measure Communists & Socialists most favor, the bill ratifying the Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Treaty. Meeting with President Lebrun, the Cabinet swiftly decreed dissolution of the Action Franchise League of 70,000 Royalists and its subdivisions, the National Federation of Royalist Students and the National Federation of Camelots du Roi ("King's Henchmen") who number 6,000. Not arrested were Royalist Leaders Daudet and Maurras. Chirped Managing Editor Maurice Pujo of L' Action Francaise: "These measures will only make us Royalists more united than ever. The Government cannot decree out of existence the monarchical idea."
*These minutiae being recorded by an amateur cinema cameraman whose film police confiscated and used to identify the culprits.