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PARIS -- Premier Edouard Daladier today outlined to Sumner Welles, President Roosevelt's enjoy, a five-point Allied program calling for the crushing of Hitlerism regardless of cost...
PARIS--Premier Edouard Daladier, in an exclusive interview with the Osaka Mainichi tonight, revealed that French military preparations envisage a "massive German attack with all forces," this spring, that France and Japan are preparing to open negotiations for French recognition of Manchukuo and that the French government views Russian Bolshevism and German Nazlism as essentially the same thing, comparable to cholera or the plague...
Socialist Blum cited as an example the recent programmatic speech of Fascist Foreign Minister Count Ciano of Italy (TIME, Dec. 25), which was cut to ribbons by Premier Edouard Daladier's press censorship but reached French radio listeners in broadcasts from Italy, Germany and even America in an assortment of languages which of course included French. Up jumped Rightist Deputy Xavier Vallat to agree for once with Leftist Blum, gave the Chamber other examples...
...debate that has occupied these last two days," declared Chamber Speaker Edouard Herriot amid an eager hush, "has enabled us to dissipate certain legends and establish the truth-the comforting truth. It has permitted the Premier to explain his course to us confidentially, in a manner that was simple and familiar and by that fact infinitely moving. It has finally permitted Parliament to play its full role. ... In two days there has been confirmed in decisive fashion our national unanimity which is inalienable because it is founded on liberty and the passionate love of country." The whole House rose...
...Traitors!" What made the 534-to-0 Chamber vote additionally significant was that it came last week after Middle-of-the-Roader Edouard Daladier had taken overt steps presaging a French diplomatic break with the Soviet Union. Some 100 Paris police swooped down to raid the Soviet Trade Delegation, broke open its safes and files, seized incriminating papers. When Soviet Ambassador Jacob Suritz angrily protested, demanding release of several arrested Soviet clerks, his demand was flatly rejected. Home from Moscow to Paris, ostensibly on sick leave, hustled French Ambassador Paul Emile Naggiar. With the certainty that Great Britain and France...