Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing opposition in the Chamber of Deputies of the Bloc National (whose foremost leaders are President Millerand, ex-Premier "Tiger" Clemenceau, Deputy Andre Tardieu) to Premier Raymond Poincare was accentuated by his illness, reported from fatigue...
Although the Left Centre and some of the Bloc National, which is near the Extreme Right in politics, remain faithful to Premier Poincaré, it is quite certain that his friends and his foes are not blind to his physical ailments. The Premier's apparently strong position in the Chamber is due to a large number of Deputies, particularly those of the Radical Bloc, who refuse to cast their votes either for or against Poincaré's measures. In most cases this abstention is a protest against Poincaré's foreign policy or against his abuse...
...motion granting powers of decree upon the Government: For the Government, 253; against, 16; whole Left Bloc abstained. The Radicals then raised the bugaboo of the votes not making a quorum and cries of "Resign" rent the air from the Left. The President of the Chamber ruled that a quorum was present and that the vote was in order...
Last October M. Millerand, who, when he was elected President in 1920, stated that he intended to exercise to the full the powers which the office conferred upon him, made a speech defining the policy of the Bloc for the coming election. Ever since then it has become more and more patent that President Millerand is the real power in French domestic politics. M. Poincaré must choose between remaining faithful to the Bloc or joining the maturing Bloc Gauche, a task in which he is showing considerable hesitation...
...continuance of large industrial profits, as seen in declining commodity prices, the steel industry, etc.; 3) probability of attack, and its possibility of success, by radical Congressmen upon the Transportation Act; 4) unsettling influence of Presidential election, bonus agitation, possible tampering with Federal Reserve Act by farm bloc; 5) Germany drifting into bankruptcy, England faced with a Labor Ministry, France feeling the results of debt inflation, reparations still unsettled...