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...C.I.O., claiming 3,500,000 members). The committee requested an interview to discuss France's electoral machinery, which leftists say gives the rural population a greater voice than city workers. The letter was signed by the C.G.T.'s burly, goateed Secretary General, Léon Jouhaux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The General & the Left | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...General replied stiffly that he would not meet the committee. Its request shocked him. Reason: according to the law, M. Jouhaux's C.G.T. was a trade union, not a political party. Therefore it had no business meddling in electoral policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The General & the Left | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Cried Léon Jouhaux's C.G.T.: De Gaulle's action was "authoritarian." Then, setting what might well be the leftist electoral line, it called on Frenchmen and Frenchwomen to vote "no" to the second question in the referendum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The General & the Left | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Thus, four months after the outbreak of World War II, Léon Jouhaux, President of the French General Confederation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Time for Discrimination | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Refugees whose whereabouts were unknown: French Trade Union Leader Leon Jouhaux and Belgian Walter Schevenels, secretary to the International Federation of Trade Unions; British Novelist and World War I Intelligence Officer William Somerset Maugham (last heard of just before German entry into Paris, where he was working for the British Information Ministry); some 120 German and Austrian writers in France, most of them expatriated and sought by the Gestapo, including Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel. A five-day-old message from English Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, received by his daughter, described everything as normal in his French villa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Refugee Trap | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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