Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Causes For Shift to Conservative Bloc...
...monarchy issue plays only an unimportant part today. why did the two middle parties, the Clericals and the Democrats shift their support from the liberal bloc to the conservative 'Bourgeois' bloc? There are two reasons...
...Secondly, the liberal bloc had based its case largely on the fact that their conciliatory foreign policy had resulted in a change of international atmosphere in Europe. They said that there was now no more peremptory dictation to Germany, but negotiation among equals, as shown during the London negotiations last summer. This argument has been rudely shattered since the defeat of Labor, the return to power of the Conservatives in England, and the consolidation of the conservative opponents to Herriot in France...
...clan is a theatre in Paris where M. Millerand made a famous speech in 1919 when the Bloc National was formed...
...manner of the entrance was entirely Millerandian. As President of a newly-formed National Republican League, successor to the Bloc National, whose birthplace was the Ba-ta-clan* and whose epitaph was written in the May elections, M. Millerand, backed by 13 of his faithful henchmen, stood not on the order of his coming. In language, pointed and strong, he denounced the Herriot Government in a carefully prepared manifesto. He objected...