Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent scramble of statesmen, as soon as they heard that he was going to convene the Reichstag to make speeches of appeasement, conciliation and even flattery. In thus buttering Der Führer, immaculate British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden led (TIME, Jan. 25). He was followed by French Premier Leon Blum, who as a Socialist and a Jew doubly hates the Nazis. And last week the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, inflexible Neville Chamberlain, who is perhaps to become the next Prime Minister after the Coronation in May, told his constituents at Birmingham: "Tomorrow Herr Hitler is expected to make...
...hobnailed dictator but a silky Jewish intellectual of the Leon Trotsky type is Socialist French Premier Léon Blum. Smart Paris wiseacres guessed last week that Blum's shock at the killing of Nava, chine caused him to remonstrate by telegraph with Joseph Stalin, perhaps accounted for the unexpected action...
Loud protestations members of the Cabinet of Socialist Premier Leon Blum that they did not expect to have to devalue the franc further were followed last week by a thumping event which firmed the franc on international exchange, showed that London is standing with Paris in friendly entente. The event: British bankers loaned $250,000,000 at 3½%, repayable within one year, to the French State railways. "I categorically deny," keynoted French Finance Minister Vincent Auriol, "that our monetary unit will be permitted to move lower...
...sneers as the no-good duke in the grand old style, and Christiane Delyne, the bourgeols Miss who captures the duke from the stately lady, and then tries to get her steel man too, and who ogles and languishes in the voluptuous fashion burlesqued by Miss West. But Leon Belieres endears himself to a new audience as the roly-poly chocolate-maker, the ambitious father of the duke-catcher, whose garrulity and faux pas are always impairing his daughter's chances...
...Washington.""So!"cried the prosecutor. "So you were correspondent for Izvestia and special correspondent for Trotsky?" Red Romm: "Yes." "Communist Al Smith." The Al Smith of the Soviet Union is Leon Trotsky. He might have been and Communists in numbers running very high think he ought to have been and should be Dictator of Russia today instead of Stalin. Keynoted Trotsky, who issued a fresh statement every few hours in Mexico on the Moscow trial: "Stalin's crimes put Caesar Borgia in the shade!" The brains of Trotsky are strictly first-class. Scathingly he asked why the letters...