Word: blum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in an office in the gloomy Chamber of Deputies, aged (74), ailing Premier Leon Blum ruminated wearily over a light dinner of mushroom omelet, plain lettuce salad and toast, then confided in a tired whisper: "An omelet is easier to make than a Cabinet . . . things are more complicated than I thought...
...week's end, after another series of futile meetings, exasperated elder statesman Blum said: "I have gone as fast as I could . . . I was over optimistic." Then he suddenly took matters into his own hands, proposed a Cabinet composed entirely of his fellow Socialists. Under his own arm he tucked the portfolio of Foreign Affairs in addition to the job of President-Premier...
...Said Blum: "What was I to do? What was my duty...
...other parties, well aware that unpopular economic measures were surgically necessary to save France, might be glad to see courageous old Blum take the responsibility...
...balding schoolteacher, Guy Mollet, and a phalanx of 60-odd associates, the left wing of the French Socialist Party rebelled against Léon Blum's moderate, anti-Communist leadership. By a vote of 2,964-to-1,363 (with 145 abstentions), the annual Party Congress rejected the Executive Bureau's activities report. General Secretary Daniel Mayer (a moderate) promptly resigned. Léon Blum pleaded with the rebels ("Participation of Communists in a government without any doubt serves the interests of Russia. It is not for us to enter into a government so that we could plant...