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Marked is the personal respect of French Socialists bigwigs for Socialist Leon Blum. As a moneyed young man Leader Blum for years helped impecunious comrades keep their landladies at bay. Yet last week militant pinks set themselves to make the Socialist Party Congress at Marseille hot for Vice Premier Blum. His recent resignation "without a fight" as Premier (TIME, June 28, et seq.) and his orders to Socialists to support the new Cabinet of moderate Premier Camille Chautemps they flung last week in Leader Blum's face with fury, charged him with betrayal. "Everything should be done...
Meanwhile Leader Blum had arrived quietly from Paris, his secretaries exuding confidence and saying, "Just wait and see." After some hours of Congress wrangling, Socialist Blum rose in the late afternoon, introduced himself with a sentence which set every cartoonist in France to scratching: "I shall not speak as God or as Caesar, but as for my stewardship as Premier for 13 months, I do not think that the record...
...back his prestige with the Socialist rank & file, Vice Premier Blum judged correctly, was to sound clarion calls for action to achieve such old favorite Socialist "reforms" as nationalization of French railways and to demand that the Senate be made subordinate to the Chamber. "Remember how this was done," cried Orator 'Slum, "in the case of the House of Lords in England...
...third of the Senate. They are chosen not by universal suffrage but by electoral colleges whose members are Deputies or elected delegates from communes and departments. Senatorial candidates must be at least 40, and they tend to be wealthy, political oldsters, congenitally unsympathetic to the Popular Front. Vice Premier Blum finished up at Marseille by revealing that he and Premier Camille Chautemps are going to nationalize French railways by. Sept. i, merging them by Cabinet decree into one big company of which the State will be controlling stockholder. With this concrete move and his popular harangue about the House...
Nearly two years before French workers won the 40-hr. week under Socialist Premier Leon Blum (TIME, June 29, 1936 et ante), Italian workers had received the 40-hr, week under Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini. Joseph Stalin has given Soviet toilers a system of Five-Year-Planned vacations and holiday trips. German workers are provided by Adolf Hitler with lavish "Strength Through Joy" cruises on specially constructed Nazi liners built for the exclusive fun of the proletariat. Last week in Rome some of the strides which European workmen are making toward an easier and more varied life-irrespective of what...