Word: blum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chatted with French Socialist Léon Blum, in Washington to seek a Government loan...
...second-floor bedroom of Washington's Blair House, Léon Blum put on his blue & white striped pajamas, settled down to read François René de Chateaubriand's Atala, American Indian romance told of the days when "France possessed . . . a vast empire stretching from Labrador to Florida, from the shores of the Atlantic to the remotest lakes of upper Canada." Now France's imperial glory was gone, and her aging but active special emissary, only ten months out of a Nazi prison, had come to the shores of the former colony to plead...
President Félix Gouin this week described the U.S. as "the power which possesses the most considerable financial and industrial means." Blum would soon find out if the U.S. was willing to use those means for its avowed aim of reviving world trade. Major French wants were a loan of $2½ billion and a bigger share of German coal production (France's present allotment: about 10%). These, argued Blum, were essential if France was to take her place as a strong nation...
President Truman's proposed $7 billion limit on foreign loans and stiff Congressional opposition to foreign lending were the obstacles Blum faced. But Washington observers thought France might get up to three-quarters of a billion through the Export-Import Bank...
...Premier Léon Blum, who rooms in Marie de Medici's Palace of the Luxemburg and pays rent in proportion to the amount of furniture he uses, attended to a personal matter before he departed for the U.S. to ask a $2,500,000,000 loan. He asked the French Government, please, to take away some of the furniture...