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...year and Yvon Delbos, who carries in his body three German War bullets, made no secret that Jew Blum is in haste to patch peace with Nazi Hitler, knowing that at the first crack of war Blum's Socialist-Communist supporters in France would be overwhelmed by Frenchmen carrying not the red flag but the tricolor. "On different occasions Chancellor Hitler has proclaimed his wish for an understanding with France!" cried M. Delbos. "We do not for one moment intend to question the word of a former combatant who during four years experienced the misery of the trenches...
...Just as Frenchmen were congratulating themselves because U. S. slashing of duties on French wines & liquors had reduced the price of champagnes and cognacs by 80? in the U. S.; and just as new French Premier Léon Blum was talking last week, according to the Associated Press, of appointing an envoy to try and borrow a cool "one billion dollars," abruptly the blood of U. S. citizens was made to boil against the Blum Cabinet and French employes of the American Hospital in Neuilly...
Very little of this was believed in fiscal Paris. Up went eyebrows as M. Auriol made provision for labor union and employer association delegates to sit ultimately in the councils of the Bank of France, threatened Frenchmen who have funds abroad with confiscation of equivalent funds unless the foreign deposit is reported to the Government, and implied that his "Baby Bonds" had better find quick buyers-or else. "We must conquer egotism and fear!" cried Vincent Auriol with something of Franklin Roosevelt's lilt. "Already I have in my hand a list of citizens who have evaded their duty...
Soon French workers singing the Internationale were sedately parading around with figures of capitalists whom they had hanged in effigy and a great scare shot through bourgeois Frenchmen, including their spat-wearing new Premier who is a Socialist by party but no revolutionist at heart. In his new fear Premier Blum finally announced that, although French police would not arrest occupiers of factories, they would suppress any disorder in the streets. That night jumpy Socialist Salengro, Minister of Interior, called to Paris steel-helmeted gardes mobiles with rifles in their hands, bade them keep gimlet eyes on his own Socialist...
...deputies not of the Left proceeded to chime in and soon new Premier Leon Blum had become so embarrassed that he withdrew briefly from the Chamber while gentile Edouard Herriot bellowed at the top of his great voice: "There are no Jews here, no Protestants, no Catholics-but only Frenchmen...