Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Socialist Ten Commandments. First job of the incoming Chamber last week was to elect as its President (Speaker) huge, pipe-sucking Edouard Herriot, the perpetual Mayor of Lyons who year after year keeps reminding Frenchmen that they ought to pay their War debts to the U. S.- Next the new Cabinet presented itself amid deafening cheers from the Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists. Then to his one remaining foot leaped war veteran Deputy Xavier Vallat. "This is the first time," he cried, "that our old Gallo-Roman country of France will be governed...
...Blum was most anxious to entice Radical Socialist (Conservative) Edouard Herriot into his Cabinet as Foreign Minister. Yet all his cajolery last week could not get a "Yes" out of the man the Socialists had helped to vote out of the Premiership in 1932 because he wanted to pay the War Debt to the U. S. M. Blum is not likely to become his own Foreign Minister as he believes the Premier should hold no Cabinet portfolio. Meantime M. Blum was busy promulgating the means by which he expects to guarantee France peace & power in Europe: a six-sided mutual...
...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 got the Communists' promise to support, but not to join, his Government. The Radical Socialist machine had agreed...
Minister of Foreign Affairs-Edouard Herriot...
Minister of War-Edouard Daladier...