Word: blum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France's ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Socialist leader of the 1936 Popular Front. Edouard Daladier, the only surviving man of Munich, and Paul Reynaud, the last unhappy Premier who yielded France to Marshal Pétain...
Four other leaders of the old France were also returning from Germany. Ex-Premiers Paul Reynaud (Petain's predecessor), Edouard Daladier (of Munich fame) and Leon Blum (of the Popular Front), were presumably coming home via Switzerland. Ex-Premier Edouard Herriot (leader of the Radical Socialists) was stopping first in Moscow. These men, plus the 2,500,000 plain French prisoners and deportees pouring back home, were the potent imponderables of France's political future...
Maurice Thorez had been the ideological father of Leon Blum's Popular Front. In the middle '30s Frenchmen called him "the French Stalin." During the period of the Russo-German pact, he had condemned France's "imperialist" war against Nazi Germany. When the Daladier Government outlawed the French Communist Party in September 1939, Thorez deserted from the Army, went underground...
...Vichyites disappeared, the names of democratic French leaders came back into the news. Former Chamber of Deputies President Edouard Herriot and Premier Leon Blum, who had been reported dead, were now reported to be in Germany. Reported "living quietly" was: General Maxime Weygand (in the Tyrol). Reported assassinated by Darnand's militia in Paris: ex-Cabinet Minister Georges Mandel...
...more than 20 years of roving an uneasy Europe, she has interviewed nearly all the top history-makers, including Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, De Valera, Blum, Dollfuss, Schuschnigg. She is the only woman ever to serve on the governing editorial council of the New York Times. In 1937 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence. For her, President Roosevelt regularly violates his rule against private interviews with reporters...