Word: blum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Focus. The Council of Foreign Ministers' opening session (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) marked the return of Europe's political life. London embassies carried a heavy traffic of emissaries: the Greek Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos; French Socialism's aging Leon Blum; the Czech Premier, soft-spoken Zdenek Fierlinger; Britain's ambassadors and ministers to Near and Middle East countries...
...witness continued: he was not responsible for the murders of French patriots by Vichyminister Joseph Darnand's notorious "Blackbird" militia. He had denounced no one. In fact, he personally had saved ex-Premier Reynaud and Léon Blum from Gestapo execution. The prosecution confronted Laval with a letter he had written to Pétain: "... A few spectacular executions will prevent disorder and anarchy. . . ." Cried Laval: "I respect human life." (Searing laughter in the courtroom...
Mumbled Léon Blum, 73, Socialist Premier of France's Popular Front Government (1936-37): "The Marshal . . . used his personality . . . and his prestige to lead France into shame. ... I call that treason." (Twice Léon Blum broke down and cried. The Marshal, who once tried Blum for war guilt at Riom, eyed him without visible emotion...
Marriage Revealed. Léon Blum, 73, France's coldly intellectual Socialist ex-Premier; and Jeanne Levilliers Torres Reichenbach, fiftyish, onetime wife of brainy Gaullist Lawyer Henri Torres ; both for the third time; during Blum's four-year imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp...
Died. Joseph Barthélemy, 71, ex-Vichy Minister of Justice (1941-43), official prosecutor of Daladier, Blum and Gamelin at the long-winded Riom trials, since 1942 blacklisted as a collaborator by the French underground; before the start of his own trial by the French High Court of Justice; of cancer; near Toulouse...