Word: blum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teau Chazeron there awaited him the same medieval accommodations as had greeted onetime Premier Daladier, ex-Generalissimo Gamelin, ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel, former Minister of Interior, and hulking, scholarly onetime Premier Léon Blum of the Popular Front...
Socialist Blum, whose Popular Front has been condemned by Vichy for disrupting French home life, spreading sloth and dissatisfaction among French workers, and generally running France by orders from the U. S. S. R., kept quietly to himself. He wearily stroked his straggling mustache, said little, did little...
...week's end Blum and Reynaud were yet to be indicted. Of the others Mandel alone faces a possible sentence of death. He was charged with "treasonable acts" in attempting to cooperate with Great Britain's Duff Cooper and Lord Gort in Morocco in the hope of carrying on a pro-Ally Government after France had officially signed her armistice. The others face possible life imprisonment, with the present Premier, aging Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, holding power of pardon...
Both the leaders of France during the thirties and the main movements within the country will be analyzed. Such men as Laval, Barthou and Gamelin, such movements as the Blum government and the internal disunity of the country, will be under discussion...
...four scapegoats soon had new company: Popular Frontist Premier Léon Blum. All were questioned by Prosecutor Gaston Cassagnau for hours every day, as was the prosecution's chief witness, appeaser and onetime Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet. Whether or not the Riom defendants were found guilty of starting the war, the question was: Could they be saddled with the blame for it before the Germans pinned it on all Frenchmen...