Word: paule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was heresy to practical, pro-Munich Paul Faure. Colorless, competent, cautious, he has been political organizer of the party as Blum has been its intellectual head. Heir of the pre-War traditions of French Socialism, he plumped for peace above all, insisted that "the day the Fascist nations believe themselves encircled they will certainly go to war." Support for rearmament came hard for him because he made a reputation exposing armament makers, earned the enmity of powerful Armorer Charles Schneider. He was thus squarely opposed to his friend Léon Blum when their party's annual Congress...
...half holiday with pay. Factories, shops and offices hung out yards of gay Yugoslav flags distributed by Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, while their employes marched in masses to allotted cheering stations along the troop-lined streets. Out of his special train stepped puzzled-looking, Oxford-bred Regent Prince Paul, whom Germans quickly nicknamed "Prince Charming." In his most winning manner Herr Hitler greeted the Prince while Frau Göring handed Princess Olga, the Regent's wife, a bouquet of roses, welcomed her to Naziland...
That night at a lavish State dinner, Führer Hitler and Regent Prince Paul exchanged toasts that would make Balkan, perhaps European, history...
Said prudent Prince Paul: "I am very happy . . . that the great German Reich . . . intends to recognize her [Yugoslavia's] freedom and independence as well as the same [Austrian] frontiers which have joined us as lasting neighbors since last year...
...half-hour military review, made princely eyes bug out with three new 25-ton tanks, mounting one 75-mm. gun, one 37-mm. gun, three machine guns. Carped critics: three-quarters of the parade was motorized but only 20% of the German Army is. Observers thought Prince Paul was less likely to quibble about percentages...