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...their cafés and at their firesides, members of the middle-class snorted with vexation at news that Socialist Blum had said "the Communists represent 1,500,000 citizens of France, so they cannot be ignored," and Radical Socialist National Defense & War Minister Edouard Daladier had chimed in, "Since a Communist soldier is considered good enough to die for France, I fail to see why there should not be a Communist in the Cabinet. I am sure that all Frenchmen will fly to the frontier, as they did in 1914, in case of menace from abroad...
...that the French Embassy in Berlin had warned its home Government of a possible Nazi coup unless politically torn France quickly pulled herself together. She not only did so but instantly established a new Ministry for National Defense & War coordinating the War, Marine and Air Forces under Radical Socialist Edouard Daladier. General Marie Gustave Gamelin, Army Chief of Staff became Chief of the Army, Marine and Air Force with the title Chief of Staff for National Defense. This was said to "place France on a wartime footing." Just three weeks ago General Gamelin permitted a subordinate general on active service...
Above the green, copper roofs of Copenhagen in the grey-spired Christiansborg palace, home of the Danish Parliament, a dumpy old lady last week rapped a distinguished gathering to order. Before her sat 203 representatives from 21 nations, including France's bouncing Edouard Herriot, Czechoslovakia's venerable Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, England's Leaguophile Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. The meeting was boycotted by totalitarian Russia, Germany and Italy, but when the old lady, peering sharply from behind high baskets of pink and red roses, began to speak, it was in full-throated Italian. At 67, Dottoressa Maria Montessori...
Sergeants-at-arms in the Chamber of Deputies had to keep separating members who loudly threatened to thrash each other. On three occasions the Speaker, portly M. Edouard Herriot, was unable to get order by ringing his bell, had to suspend the session by the classic French gesture of clapping on his silk hat and waddling out. Twenty Communist Deputies rushed in a fist-shaking, hoarse-shouting phalanx toward the centre of the Chamber, and only concerted efforts by all the sergeants-at-arms checked their assault. In the Senate it was the duty of former Premier Blum, since...
Least poverty-stricken of the French railroads is the Chemin de Per du Nord, whose President is white-mustached Edouard de Rothschild. Last week, as his railroad was in danger of being taken out of his hands, he got his second bellyful of state socialism within a year. He was one of the regents of the Bank of France until Premier Blum booted the "200 Families" out of their ancient domination (TIME. July...