Word: blum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leon Blum, at the dedication of a monument to Vichy-murdered Georges Mandel in Fontainebleau, came up with a good Gallic symbol of Gallic solidarity: to his political antagonist, Rightist Paul Reynaud, France's Socialist elder statesman gave an unscheduled, non-compulsory buss...
TIME, June 10: "The Socialists' setback [in the French elections] would undoubtedly have been worse if their Elder Statesman Leon Blum had not dashed in, like the Texas Rangers, three days before election, with a $1,400,000 U.S. loan...
...Elder Statesman Blum, more careful of his zeros than TIME'S researcher, dashed in with the whole influential...
...speech. In the Chamber of Deputies, Jacques Duclos shook his fist, cried: "Let me warn you. Where the rioters started . . . last night . . . Adolf Hitler started over twenty years ago!" Pravda's correspondent fished farther back in history, likened De Gaulle to President-Emperor Louis Napoleon. Leon éBlum, De Gaulle's most lenient critic, shook his head. "In France the step from presidential to personal power is all too short. . . ." Not a single responsible party leader defended Charles de Gaulle's gravest political mistake...
These bold words were long overdue, but still they would not fill French bellies. Perhaps an even better (and more belated) campaign argument was the billion-dollar U.S. loan that Socialist Léon Blum was bringing back from Washington after ten weeks of negotiation and 21 months of liberation...