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...subject of honeymoons Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, and Il Papa, Pius XI, are in close harmony (see above). On the subject of Fascism, either black or brown shirted. they are not. Last week, with the German Catholic Centrist party fighting for its life at Adolf Hitler's polls, the Papal daily L'Osservatore Romano deplored the thrusting aside of German Democracy by German Fascism...
...PAPA LA FLEUR-Zona Gale-Appleton...
...Papa La Fleur, an old man, descendant of French voyageurs, lived peacefully with his two daughters, made a living by keeping bees on an island in the river. Dolly, his eldest daughter, still a fine figure of a woman, had come home from a year in Chicago changed, embittered. But she never told anyone what had happened. Linnie, the younger, just grown up, loved her home but wanted to get away. Milo, a neighbor who raised orchids and was not otherwise exciting, kept trying to get her to marry him, but she was not enthusiastic. When rumors came that...
Deputy Léon Blum, leader of the Socialist Party whose votes had been vital in keeping the Paul-Boncour Cabinet in power, attacked Papa Chéron thus: "In a crisis like this all estimates need to be modified from one minute to the next. . . . The pursuit of a rigorous balance is the pursuit of a mirage. . . . If the violence of the remedy aggravates the ill, what will become of your rigid balance? There is nothing to do but approach a balance, and certainly meanwhile one must borrow...
Such reasoning had so obvious an appeal to the Chamber that Premier Paul-Boncour threw overboard some of Papa Chéron's most onerous taxes and economies. For a time the Cabinet seemed to have been saved. It won a vote of confidence 348 to 243. The Chamber voted 400 to 181 to sit all night and began to vote sections of the budget, voted 65 of the 150 sections. Suddenly up popped an item of 5% reduction in the pay of civil servants. Socialist objections touched off pandemonium. "My heart is torn," cried stringy-haired Socialist Blum...