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...accompaniment of rolling drums, Vincent Auriol had walked slowly out to the waiting car. Said he, with a sense of impending crisis: "I must go fast." Within half an hour he had received from Leon Blum the resignation of the interim Socialist government...
Then it was time for Giuseppe Saragat, sometimes called the Leon Blum of Italy, and Nenni's bitterest enemy. He had come to secede. In a strong, clear voice he deplored "this moment of grief." He said: "Our party has fallen into the hands of men who no longer believe in its historical function as an independent party. If we had one hope in a thousand that we could redirect the present Socialist Party towards its true role, we would remain. This hope we do not have. We must give the laboring masses a true Socialist Party which...
Highlights of History. Two recent pictures, little highlights of history, illustrate Koestler's meaning. One shows Communist boss Jacques Duclos (see cut) bouncing out of his first conference with new Premier Leon Blum. Duclos is unmistakably the master, a rotund figure of smug and pregnant power. The other picture shows France's new Socialist Cabinet. On the eve of taking office, they are just as unmistakably the defeated-pathetic shadows, human ciphers called to the semblance of power, but denied even the illusion of political effectiveness. For, says Koestler, "the French Socialists have lost both their courage...
...Bidaults, who since 1944 'have lived in a comfortable apartment in the French Foreign Office, were embarrassed last fortnight when Bidault ceased to be Premier-President and Foreign Minister and thus lost his home. The Bidaults could find no place to go. But his successor Léon Blum told the flustered Bidaults that there was no hurry about moving...
...other parties, well aware that unpopular economic measures were surgically necessary to save France, might be glad to see courageous old Blum take the responsibility...