Word: french
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daladier the Premier was another story. His numerous decrees ending press freedom, clamping down a strict (and sometimes clumsy) censorship, his bland refusals to compromise, his crushing of the great French labor unions so that now French laborers are forced to work overtime for no extra pay and cannot effectively protest against either conditions or wages-all these things and others have caused widespread and deep-seated distrust. The Premier's argument last week that he must have a blank check from Parliament because "democracies find themselves in the presence of other regimes which can act rapidly...
...British Parliament having sat, argued, debated and voted continuously since the war's outbreak with no noticeable hindrance to the military, the French Chamber of Deputies could see no reason why it should shut up shop. Rightist Louis Marin got a big hand when he insisted that Parliament, far from obstructing the Government, would be a wartime help. M. Blum disavowed politics, but refused to "accept the text of a law that would transfer totalitarian powers" to the Government. The Chamber tried to argue M. Daladier into submitting all decrees to Parliament within a month of issuance. The Premier...
Gedye of the New York Times and others have announced the belief that Bolshevik policy today aims to keep all Europe at war until the day of "World Revolution." Last week this story was nailed by Communist No. 1. He took as his text reports carried by the French Havas News Agency that on Aug. 19 in Moscow, Dictator Stalin, addressing the Politburo or steering committee of the Communist Party, "expounded the idea that the war should last as long as possible so that the belligerents would become exhausted...
...disclosed in Moscow was what the Dictator did tell his Politburo on Aug. 19, when he presumably explained why it was expedient for Russia to rebuff Anglo-French peace overtures and sign up with Germany on the eve of World War II. Havas had quoted Stalin as saying...
...Germany wins, she will emerge from the war too exhausted to dream of an armed conflict against us. ... She will have . . . vast colonies . . . Comrades, war must burst out between Germany and the Anglo-French bloc! . , . We must accept the pact proposed by Germany and work to prolong the war the maximum possible...