Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council of the League of Nations which had been about to open was suddenly postponed. In London Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hastily conferred with Anthony Eden, called home from Monte Carlo to duty : . the Foreign Office. For European statesmen felt that it was not just another French Cabinet which fell last week, that a crisis was at hand not only for France but for Europe...
...recent months French political police have discovered grave armed plots against the State. But the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps, supported by a coalition of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists, kept the French public in the dark. A score of Rightists, few prominent, were arrested, but their loud demands to be accused of treason and given their day in court were ignored. Fortnight ago, with the evident consent of the General Staff, a general on active duty declared that there was to have been a Communist coup d'etat on November 16, but that word...
...whether they would stick with the Communists or with the moderate, misnamed Radical Socialist Party of Chautemps, the second largest party in the Chamber. Out of the Socialist huddle came Blum to hand Chautemps his own resignation and that of the other eight Socialist ministers. This automatically wrecked the Cabinet. The hour was 4:30 a. m. Premier Chautemps bundled his Cabinet into a motorcade which brought them before cockcrow to hand all their resignations to sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun. "Blum will be the next Premier!" exulted his Socialist henchmen and Communist friends...
...hectic days which followed it became clear that even the most embittered French political leaders sensed that France was sitting on a powder-keg. The President called in quick succession Radical Socialist Georges Bonnet, Socialist Leon Blum-both of whom quickly failed to form a Cabinet. A valiant attempt was made to arrange a "National Government" in which Right & Left would collaborate to spare France possible armed strife. The franc meanwhile sank on international exchange to its lowest in eleven years...
...week's end, sleepless and haggard, President Lebrun sent once more for Camille Chautemps, asked him to try to form a Cabinet. "We have been around in a circle," declared the Premier-Designate with an exhausted attempt at humor, "and we are back where we started...