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They used to call Edouard Daladier, in public, the "Bull of Vaucluse," while behind his back they muttered: "that cow of vacillation." They used to draw cartoons of Léon Blum shaking with fright at the gusty leftism released when his Popular Front swept the 1936 elections. But last week, at the "war guilt" trials in Riom, ex-Premier Daladier was no flabby trimmer, ex-Premier Blum no weakling...
Fully as fierce were Socialist Blum's answers to charges that he sold out France to sit-down strikers and Communist intriguers. He had dealt with Communists, he said, because it was "impossible to defend republican ideals by excluding a large mass of the people." With a daring that made the courtroom gasp, he spoke of a Communist, recently a saboteur, "who often bitterly attacked...
...shot," said Blum, "but he died singing the Marseillaise-the Marseillaise the Popular Front taught him to sing...
...already landed (in 1919) her first, and still her largest, wholesale customer, California's I. Magnin chain of high falutin women's specialty shops. Within a few years, stores like Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Mrs. Blum's in Chicago (who said Nettie could get "more money for four seams than anyone else"), Nan Duskin's in Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under...
...dared to say this of the man whom Vichy had condemned to death. Did it mean that the carefully chosen Riom tribunal would actually allow a trial in the finest French tradition? Or did it mean that Vichy had forgotten that such men as Daladier and Leon Blum were uncontrollable hornets when let loose...