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Camille Chautemps, France's moderate and middle-class Premier, had struggled for months with his Communist and Socialist bedfellows to give France a "pause" from the New Deal measures inaugurated 19 months ago under France's first Socialist Premier, Leon Blum. Early this winter the "pause" was giving French businessmen a moderate return of confidence, and the treasury situation was improving under Finance Minister Georges Bonnet although the franc was weak. In the last few weeks, this recovery was halted by a new wave of strikes...
...that point, Vice Premier Leon Blum's Socialists asked time out to consider whether they would stick with the Communists or with the moderate, misnamed Radical Socialist Party of Chautemps, the second largest party in the Chamber. Out of the Socialist huddle came Blum to hand Chautemps his own resignation and that of the other eight Socialist ministers. This automatically wrecked the Cabinet. The hour was 4:30 a. m. Premier Chautemps bundled his Cabinet into a motorcade which brought them before cockcrow to hand all their resignations to sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun. "Blum will be the next...
...hectic days which followed it became clear that even the most embittered French political leaders sensed that France was sitting on a powder-keg. The President called in quick succession Radical Socialist Georges Bonnet, Socialist Leon Blum-both of whom quickly failed to form a Cabinet. A valiant attempt was made to arrange a "National Government" in which Right & Left would collaborate to spare France possible armed strife. The franc meanwhile sank on international exchange to its lowest in eleven years...
They succeeded only after the most desperate measures, including three blood transfusions (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936, et ante). Since then Statesman Titulescu has kept clear of Rumania while he convalesced. Last spring he was lunched in Paris by Socialist Premier Blum, who is now Vice Premier, and French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. Later, stopping at the Ritz in London, he had long talks with pro-French British bigwigs such as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Sir Robert Vansittart, Winston Churchill and Lloyd George. Last week, 5,000 Rumanians jampacked Bucharest's dingy railway station, flaunted banners reading "Long Live Titulescu...
Bustling up to Moscow last week went famed Leon Jouhaux, the portly "Tsar of French trade unionism." During last year's active "New Deal" period in France, pot-bellied Tsar Jouhaux was a hero to millions of workers who credited him with browbeating the Cabinet of Socialist Leon Blum into decreeing nationwide shorter hours, vacations with pay. After Socialist Blum was succeeded this year by middle-class Premier Camille Chautemps, who reined in the New Deal and announced an official "pause" (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante) the huge bulk of Labor's Jouhaux has been less impressive...