Word: blum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dream. Communist strikes and violence were numbing the country. More openly than ever, the Reds admitted that their main objective was to block aid from the U.S. In this crisis, who could form a government? President Vincent Auriol asked 75-year-old Socialist Léon Blum to try. But M. Blum, it seemed, was living in an old man's dream-the dream of a troisième force (third force) which would hold the democratic bastions against Gaullism and Communism alike. In his request to the Assembly for a vote of confidence, Léon Blum antagonized...
...world. They charged that the U.S. and Britain had fought World War II purely for imperialist reasons. Specifically named as "imperialist toadies" and traitors to the working class were Britain's Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; France's Premier Ramadier and Socialist Leader Leon Blum, Italy's Giuseppe Saragat, and Dr. Kurt Schumacher, German Social Democratic leader...
Graduate students receiving Sheldon Travelling Fellowships are: John M. Blum '43 2G, history; Constantine P. Cavarnos '42 3G, philosophy; Arthur P. Gardner 3G, Germanic languages and literatures; John M. Maxon 3G, fine arts; Charles L. Remington 1G, biology; Thomas C. Smith 1G, history; and Henry T. Dohrman, Jr., Gr. Dv., theology...
Dismissals. For Ramadier's Socialist Party the situation was embarrassing. Its official policy was collaboration with the Communists. But after an impassioned plea from Elder Statesman Léon Blum, the Socialist directorate decided on a break. It authorized Ramadier to drop the Communists from his Cabinet. Once more the Cabinet convened. Ramadier told the Communists: "Thank you for your cooperation." The Communists had permit" ted themselves to be dismissed...
Socialist Patriarch Léon Blum snapped back that the savior of the Republic spoke against the Republic. "I am obliged to acknowledge that an open fight has now begun," he wrote. "Without reservation . . . [the Socialist Party] will be on the side of the Republic." The moderate MRP's leaders were cautious and worried. The Right's approval of De Gaulle was markedly reserved. Communist L'Humanité demanded an Assembly debate to forbid Army officers to listen to De Gaulle. Worried about the increased danger of civil war, Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier paid a hasty visit...