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...peace so long as the Nazi regime remained in power; bitter experience had revealed that Nazi pledges did not count. Crisscrossing French political and economic life, Sumner Welles saw President Lebrun, the President of the Senate, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, ex-Premier Socialist Leon Blum, the leaders of the Polish Government in exile (who hastily put together an advance copy of the Polish Black Book, which catalogues German atrocities in Poland...
Anastasie, the puritanical, tight-lipped old maid who symbolizes censorship to Frenchmen (TIME, Dec. 4), fought for her life last week as protests against her were made in the Chamber of Deputies. Socialist Leader Leon Blum made the strongest accusations, terming what Anastasie had done as "absolute incompetence" and "ridiculous ignorance." Then he produced statistics to show her devastating effect on French publicity abroad: "Out of every 100 lines of information published by U. S. newspapers France obtains five, Germany...
Socialist Blum cited as an example the recent programmatic speech of Fascist Foreign Minister Count Ciano of Italy (TIME, Dec. 25), which was cut to ribbons by Premier Edouard Daladier's press censorship but reached French radio listeners in broadcasts from Italy, Germany and even America in an assortment of languages which of course included French. Up jumped Rightist Deputy Xavier Vallat to agree for once with Leftist Blum, gave the Chamber other examples...
Placid and unmoved sat Chief Censor Deputy Martinaud-Deplat, even when Orator Blum boomed at him, "the personnel of the censorship bureau is discredited with the press because of their ignorance of the conditions in which the press has to work, notably the time limitations to which the press is subjected! ... As for photographs, our inferiority is even more disastrous. I have examined recent issues of an important American magazine and I have noticed many fine German pictures and only two mediocre French photographs...
Premier Daladier, secure in the unanimous vote of confidence which the Chamber gave him fortnight ago, stayed home nursing a cold. Onetime Premier Blum was among the first to concede that control of the press in wartime is necessary not only from the military standpoint but even for political reasons. Thus the Communist dailies of France have been entirely suppressed with the entire approval of Socialist Blum. All speakers made clear they were not attacking the Government on this issue, only making suggestions...