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...Elite Assemblymen denounced the movement as fascist. The military junta met it with armored cars and mounted machine guns. The night before the election, voodoo drums beat feverishly in the lower town, and there were rifle shots. The Garde killed two, wounded...
...favor, beyond Mickey Mouse, limited nationalization and limited Western orientation) have 54 seats. The People's Party (for capitalism and a strong Western-minded foreign policy) have 48. While Bohemia and Moravia turned left, Catholic Slovakia swung sharply to the right: the province managed to elect 48 Conservative assemblymen...
...call came unanimously. Only one of 556 Assemblymen did not vote to have M. de Gaulle serve as President of the Government until the constitution of the Fourth Republic is drafted. Extreme Rightist Louis Dumat abstained from voting: "I am against the Communists. The Communist Party, in hugging De Gaulle to its breast, will try to smother him tomorrow...
...French right-wingers the percentage seemed excessive. Cried conservative assemblymen: the proposed taxes would kill private enterprise and the incentive to save. Sneered Socialist Jules Moch: the proposed taxes were "too timid and too late." Growled Communist boss Jacques JDuclos: Minister Pleven was "toadying to the money interests...
Most of his Cabinet resigned while U.S. troops in the heavily fortified Canal Zone were just beginning to hear the echoes of Panama's political fight. Nearly half of the Assemblymen fled to the Tivoli Hotel in the Canal Zone. U.S. Army headquarters announced a "full alert," watched and listened for developments. But none supposed that they would be anything except spectators at another tour de force in Central American politics...