Protests

P:At Rouen, the Archbishop of that name presided over a meeting of Catholics at which General de Castelnau and the Marquis de la Ferronaye spoke. The meeting passed a vote of censure on the Government for sponsoring the suppression of the French Embassy to the Vatican (TIME, June 30, Sept. 8, Mar. 30).

P:At Vannes, a procession of 25,000 Catholics paraded the streets in silence. In the Fair Ground, Cardinal Charost addressed them; and a resolution was subsequently passed "to organize for the defense of religious liberty."

P: At Le Mans. M. Paul Painleve, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and ATillionaire Deputy Leon Blum addressed a crowd, of 4,000. The meeting ended with a resolution expressing satisfaction with the Government's anticlerical policies.

P:At Verdun, 3,000 Radicals assembled in the marketplace, where, a week before, the Catholics had staged a giant demonstration, passed a vote of congratulations to Premier Herriot for his "defense of democratic doctrine against the great offensive of the clerical reactionary forces."