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Bigwig Socialists and Radical Socialists who received the Cabinet's best plums were mostly Frenchmen who have made their mark as faithful party wheelhorses. Some idea of the calibre of these men could be had from the fact that France's longtime League of Nations Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour, who for years has been willing to serve with almost any Cabinet, was understood to have rebuffed overtures from Premier Blum, declaring, "I will not serve with such nonentities...
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...
...historic bad blood that exists between Frenchmen and Germans is no more bitter than the hatred between French Socialists and French Royalists. Last week furious Editor Charles Maurras of the Royalist Action Française was led into a Paris court to answer charges that an editorial of his had incited Frenchmen to attack rich Socialist Leader Leon Blum, who is slated next week to become France's first Jewish Premier. Three months ago Editor Maurras was fined $6.50, sentenced to four months in jail on the grounds that a previous editorial had inspired a Royalist mob to give...
...grounds that Frenchmen during the past month voted not for Communists, not for Socialists, but for the Popular Front, wise old Leon Blum last week told France over & over that when his Socialists take over the Government next month they will keep Capitalism. "Our task," said the next Premier, "is to extract from this social regime whatever it may still hold of justice and well being...
...reasons of his own, M. Blum is expected to refuse. This would be a relief to all France which, with most of Europe nervously shadowboxing, is not anxious to antagonize Nazi Germany with a Premier who is both a Socialist and a Jew. Frenchmen thoroughly expected therefore that, having voted against the Radical Socialists, the next Premier would be a Radical Socialist-Edouard Daladier, two-time Premier. As a matter of fact, M. Daladier is far more Socialistic in sympathy than most of his fellow party members, hence will attract the support of the Popular Front...