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...last French election gave a strong Chamber majority to the three parties of the Popular Front. Of these three the misnamed Radical Socialist Party of new Premier Camille Chautemps is actually moderate; the Socialist Party of M. Leon Blum is waveringly radical; and last week it was up to the Communist Party to decide whether to continue shoulder to shoulder with the other two or withdraw and thus break the Popular Front...
MARRIAGE - Leon Blum - Lippincott...
...Stanley Baldwin or Ramsay MacDonald had written Marriage, they would never have got to be Prime Ministers. Because Leon Blum is a Frenchman, authorship of this plain-speaking sex treatise, although known to Frenchmen for nearly 30 years, did him no political harm, may indeed have increased confidence in his ability to give leadership to an important French institution. Now, however, with Marriage still selling like wildfire. Premier Blum wishes people would forget he ever wrote the book. The national tittering is beginning to get on his nerves. What Frenchmen titter at is the self-portrait of youthful Poet-Journalist...
...reform, declares Socialist Blum, need not wait for social revolution, can be won "simply through progress in ideas about morality." Veering even more sharply from orthodox Marxist sex doctrine is his belief that, since the "upper and middle classes" control public opinion and show the highest sex illiteracy, education must begin at the top. And of this group, since its men are already groping along the right track, "it is upon girls . . . that I rely for carrying out the reform which I suggest...
...library philosopher. Author Blum quotes sparingly from such pioneers of sex thought as Balzac, Rousseau, Stendhal, prefers his own sex data gathered "for years." Liveliest example of data-gathering by M. Blum, who "used to be very fond of following women," is his description of how in two hours before her train, a charming pickup gave him an insight into the "amorous unrest" of young brides. Later he learned she was the wife of an old college friend...