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With Dean Watson's permission, Stocking was distributing notices of a talk by Communist regional director Emmanuel Blum, scheduled for tomorrow night at Kirkland House Common Room, in Wigglesworth E entry, when three figures, obscured somewhat by darkness and rain, jumped...
Gide averaged about a book a year (poetry, fiction, drama or criticism); he also had a hand in half a dozen magazines. On the Revue Blanche he succeeded Leéon Blum as literary critic. ("Blum has the precise kind of mind that congeals mine at a distance and whose lucid brilliance keeps mine muscle-bound as it were and reduced to impotence.") Trying his hand as a publisher, Gide pulled one of the greatest boners in literary history when he turned down a first novel by Marcel Proust: Swann...
Reporter Tabouis, first French newshen to win the Legion's cross* and its little red ribbon, might have had her decoration twelve years ago. In 1936, her appointment had been approved by Léon Blum, then premier. But a few days before the ceremony his own paper, Le Populaire, attacked her as a secret supporter of Franco. So Mme. Tabouis wrote an angry letter telling Blum that she "was not accustomed to being caressed and beaten by the same hand, and didn't want to be decorated...
...happened this way: Léon Blum and his Socialists had rebelled last month against measures like decontrol of consumer goods, the free market for gold and currency. To save his Cabinet, Schuman had made a costly concession. He agreed to a pet Socialist plan: withdrawal of 5,000-franc notes, which supposedly would smoke out illegal currency hoards. As soon as the announcement was made, prices went up drastically...
...Dream. Communist strikes and violence were numbing the country. More openly than ever, the Reds admitted that their main objective was to block aid from the U.S. In this crisis, who could form a government? President Vincent Auriol asked 75-year-old Socialist Léon Blum to try. But M. Blum, it seemed, was living in an old man's dream-the dream of a troisième force (third force) which would hold the democratic bastions against Gaullism and Communism alike. In his request to the Assembly for a vote of confidence, Léon Blum antagonized...