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...Socialists and Radical Socialists who received the Cabinet's best plums were mostly Frenchmen who have made their mark as faithful party wheelhorses. Some idea of the calibre of these men could be had from the fact that France's longtime League of Nations Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour, who for years has been willing to serve with almost any Cabinet, was understood to have rebuffed overtures from Premier Blum, declaring, "I will not serve with such nonentities...
Minimum majority in the next Chamber of Deputies is 310. M. Blum's Socialists hold 146 seats; their Communist allies 72; their Radical Socialist allies 116; Joseph Paul-Boncour's Socialist Union 28. making a total of 362. But in addition to about half a dozen deputies who never cooperate with anybody, there will be in this apparent majority about 50 Radical Socialists, headed by Edouard Herriot, who cannot stomach the Popular Front's liberal program. Last week Leon Blum gave his best efforts to flirting with these all-important 50 votes. He had already...
France's suave Joseph Paul-Boncour sat at one end of a long table, Britain's Anthony Eden at the other. Their lunch eon guests were the delegates of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands. Early last week this group of neutrals had gone to the dingy Hotel Richemond and into the bedroom of rawboned, learned Dr. Peter Munch, Foreign Minister of Denmark. To them Dr. Munch pointed out that the Sanctions question and the Rhineland occupation had a definite lesson. It was time for the small neutrals to stop being the witless tools of France...
Odds were increasing that the French elections would swing to the Left, which would probably mean that he, Joseph Paul-Boncour, would go back as French Foreign Minister. He personally was entirely in favor of an oil ban on Italy, or anything else that his good friend Eden would suggest, but his constituents were...
Britain's Eden was so struck with the happy idea behind all this that he rushed to the Press with a few kind words expressing his profound gratitude at the "helpfulness of M. Paul-Boncour...