Word: marin
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Every hour on the hour Paris radio broadcast bulletins, but there was little news beside the fact that in the crisis the Government had at long last achieved a "Union Sacree" of all parties by adding to the Cabinet Professor Louis Marin and Conservative Leader Jean Ybarnegaray from the extreme Right. Everyone who understood English tuned in the British Broadcasting Corp. Disturbing to many of the French was the BBC announcement that Winston Churchill had been made Prime Minister. In Paris his reputation is for recklessness. The French remember that in World War I the ghastly risks and losses...
About 3 a. m. elephantine Speaker Edouard Herriot let spectators stream back into the Chamber galleries. He revealed that during the secret session prominent Rightist Deputy Louis Marin had introduced a motion of no-confidence in the Daladier Government. The "voting urns"-dark brown wooden boxes-had been passed. The count was announced officially as 239-to-1 in support of the Cabinet-with more than 300 abstentions...