Word: blum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bayonne, where the great Stavisky financial scandal had its origins, Jew-baiting Doriot, coatless and snapping his galluses, demanded immediate execution without trial of onetime Premiers Léon Blum and Paul Reynaud and onetime Minister of Interior Georges Mandel. He wanted their deaths as the first of a series of reprisals against civilian leaders who led France...
...sport in politics. "One old gentleman [Baron Christiany] made it a point at all social affairs which the President [Loubet] attended to throw rotten eggs at him" or bash in the Presidential topper with a cane. It was not long before Mme. Tabouis would see Premier Léon Blum's head bashed in by young Royalists...
...note in his memorandum book-Wednesday (or Saturday)-lunch at Madame Tabouis' house.' " Actors, poets, writers also came. Once the conversation was about Royalist Writer Léon Daudet's unforgettable nicknames for people he did not like. He called New Dealish Léon Blum "the Circumcized Hermaphrodite." A bewhiskered Rightist deputy was "our most Distinguished Burper." Foreign Minister Boncour was "the Don Juan of the Washrooms." Author Tabouis herself became "Madame Tata, the Clairvoyant...
...Before the war," Blum said, "private industries sold material to Italy, so that when the war came enemies shot at us with French-manufactured cannon shells...
...MacArthur. But at the same time the Russians and the New Deal sent up the Hearst blood pressure even more than the Axis did. It took no expert at reading between lines to see the drift in an editorial on the Riom trials of Daladier and Léon Blum: "[The trials] may be the beginning of a new era of justice and of peace on this earth. . . . It is surely time that the men responsible for the murder and misery of war should be tried and convicted and deservedly punished...