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...early history, the French Socialist Party alternately feuded and fused with its Communist rivals. The present party was born in 1920, when Leon Blum rebelled against accepting direction from the Kremlin. By 1936 the Socialists had 149 seats in the Assembly, and Blum's Popular Front government ruled France with Communist support. The two parted angrily over the Hitler-Stalin pact, made up when Hitler's invasion of Russia made resistance fighters of them all, stayed uneasy friends until Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier threw the Communists out of his government...
...know whether Emanuel Blum (who has been identified as a Communist party organizer in Boston) had connections with people handling classified government material...
...Left could count on picking up 3,500,000 votes from them. It could also count on "those Christian Socialists who passionately love justice, including social justice . . . Would this mean an other Popular Front? No. For the man who would take Leon Blum's place - and he is a successor to Blum in many ways - is not a Marxist. The perspective would not be pro-Marxist; it would be New Deal." Old Virtues. Another recruit to the New Left is Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, chief editorial writer of the influential Figaro, who has professed him self disillusioned...
...PICTORIAL TREASURY OF OPERA IN AMERICA, by Daniel Blum (267 pp.; Greenberg; $10), is not very skillfully done, but it includes many hundreds of photographs of opera stars and scenes that will make pleasant browsing for opera fans...
...France broke down and Ho returned to Indo-China. There was a sharp, unexpected encounter at Haiphong, where French naval units, claiming that they had been attacked, bombarded the city. Ho prepared with guile for the onset of war. On Dec. 15 he congratulated the new French Premier Leon Blum (an old Socialist friend), and Ho's Interior Minister expressed a "sincere desire for fraternal cooperation." On Dec. 19 Ho ordered the Viet Minh army to attack the unsuspecting French army and civilian population in Hanoi. "For every ten men that you kill," Ho, man of war, warned...