Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrive that Bolshevik Russia and Republican France should somehow be linked in close mutual accord has become a ruling passion with the wealthy No. 1 Socialist of France, that exquisitely cultivated Jew and famed rabble-rouser, M. Léon Blum. From rostrums as various as the curbstone of a Paris slum and the tribune of the Chamber, long-nosed, stringy-haired M. Blum has clarioned: "Socialism is my religion!" Last week he lay in bandages, "put to bed for his religion" by Royalist youths, who thus brazenly described the outrageous beating they gave Socialist Blum when his appearance...
This plan, looking forward to the mutual exchange of a thousand selected leaders of the younger generation, ought to be closely watched. It may, in the next year, prove to be a great chance for many Harvard undergraduates...
...most intelligent opposition that has yet been offered to the Franco-Soviet Pact of mutual assistance was presented in the French Chamber last Tuesday by M. Taittinger of the Nationalist wing. He argued that France might be dragged into a war with Germany as a result of it and that the signing of the pact would be followed by fresh demands for financial assistance, even though past Russian debts were still unpaid. He also advanced the opinion that nothing should be done to irritate Germany at a time when peace was of such paramount importance...
Distrust of Soviet Russia has been steadily increasing in official Parisian circles and many political leaders are gradually realizing that the road to peace is not fringed by a dense shrubbery of so called "defensive" mutual assistance pacts. The World War gave ample proof that defensive alliances with the resulting struggles for a balance of power were disastrous, and that such actions inevitably led to war. M. Xavier Vallett, another Nationalist deputy, speaking shortly after M. Taittinger, said that he opposed the pact because if would lead Germany to believe that she was being encircled. Such sentiments are truly encouraging...
Paris. Government-inspired, General Niessel, late of the French Supreme War Council, charged that the demilitarized Rhineland "safety zone," established by the Versailles Treaty and confirmed in mutual amity by the Locarno Treaty, has now been partially militarized with 40,000 Germans equipped with machine guns, armored cars, bomb and flame throwers and a signal corps. "The only way to live at peace with a nation possessed of such a passion for violence," said General Niessel, "is to confront it with force equally strong...