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...eyed French President Albert Lebrun no sooner called M. Reynaud next day than the dapper new Premier promptly announced M. Daladier as his No. 2, retained him as Minister of National Defense-the key post which Daladier has held continuously for the past four years since it was given him in the first Popular Front Cabinet of Socialist Léon Blum...
Fortunately the eleven-day Easter recess of Parliament was just about to begin -and that gave France a breather. After consulting President Lebrun, Premier Reynaud & Cabinet decided not to resign, to try over Easter to pacify partisan passions and negotiate a solid Chamber majority...
...talk with Premier Daladier brought a pungent restatement of the French point of view: that there could be no peace so long as the Nazi regime remained in power; bitter experience had revealed that Nazi pledges did not count. Crisscrossing French political and economic life, Sumner Welles saw President Lebrun, the President of the Senate, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, ex-Premier Socialist Leon Blum, the leaders of the Polish Government in exile (who hastily put together an advance copy of the Polish Black Book, which catalogues German atrocities in Poland...
...French Zouaves looking on, the bantam Generalissimo stood on tiptoe, lifted his stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned on each the Grand Cross, and hung on each the scarlet sash of the Legion of Honor...
France's President Albert Lebrun and Premier Edouard Daladier went out to the B. E. F. area and lunched His Majesty in a village restaurant. In deference to them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long...