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Only second in difficulty to voting in a French election is the attempt to decide just what has happened once it is over. The result of Sunday's run-off makes it clear that France maintains a unique position in a Europe becoming every day more uniformed and stylized. With Mussolini still timing the applause earned by the crowning success of the Fascist regime, and Hitler able to gather all those who voted against him in the confines of a telephone booth, in France at any rate a radical is still popular...
...Communists, Socialists and left-wing Radical Socialists who form the Popular Front can stick to their plan of united action through the run-off elections, they should control the next Chamber, should be able to form the next Cabinet. Their united votes last week were less than had been anticipated, about 50% of the 10,000,000 cast. Thus chances were that the Left Front can form a government only by coin-promising with the Right in the traditional French manner. During the life of the last Chamber of Deputies France changed Cabinets eleven times...
...hoped over France's failure to pay its War debt to the U. S. Piqued, M. Herriot cried loudly that he would retire forever from politics, a statement that required a soothing long-distance call from Premier Sarraut before M. Herriot would consent to participate in a run-off that should be a walkover...
...call a special session of the Legislature in Governor Laffoon's absence. The Legislature passed a primary law, by which, on Governor Laffoon's insistence, a majority was required for victory (TIME, Sept. 23). The Laffoon candidate led the Democratic primary with a plurality, lost the run-off to New Dealer Chandler. Aside from fervent hosannas for President Roosevelt, Candidate Chandler's campaign platform-economy, no State sales tax-differed not at all from that of his Republican opponent, austere Judge King Swope. But loud, toothy, red-headed "Happy" Chandler, onetime newsboy, jazz bandleader and football coach...
...run-off fortnight ago the Kentucky tradition still held good in bloody Harlan County. County Attorney Elmon C. Middleton, a RePublican with apparent Laffoon affiliations, climbed into his coupe in front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the cars hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...