Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Joseph Goebbels and his Ministry of Propaganda know how to turn out in Berlin, alarmed Central Europe where people believed the Times was speaking for the British Government-approving Adolf Hitler's ambition to absorb Austria and at least part of Czechoslovakia. To reassure his Czechoslovaks, their popular President Eduard Benes had to have his party newsorgan Ceske Slovo announce: "The London Times today is no more than the mouthpiece of an influential group of titled people who in their paralytic fear of Germany are working at all costs for Anglo-German Rapprochement...
...recent months French political police have discovered grave armed plots against the State. But the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps, supported by a coalition of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists, kept the French public in the dark. A score of Rightists, few prominent, were arrested, but their loud demands to be accused of treason and given their day in court were ignored. Fortnight ago, with the evident consent of the General Staff, a general on active duty declared that there was to have been a Communist coup d'etat on November 16, but that word...
This was putting the case optimistically. It was evident that the Popular Front had been so cracked, patched up and cracked again, that this coalition, which has been the base on which French Cabinets have rested since the last election (TIME, June 15, 1936), is unlikely to stand up much longer. Logical next move would be dissolution of the Chamber with an immediate election. First party to come out with what could easily become an electioneering broadside were the Communists: "Formation of the Cabinet which M. Blum had envisioned was rendered impossible by the demands of Paul Reynaud who wanted...
...goodwill around the essential principles approved by the electors." After pondering this subtle formula, at length, the Socialists in an all-night session of their National Council at first voted- in effect reversing their previous stand- to participate in any Government, even one lacking Communists, committed to a Popular Front program. Later the Socialists changed their minds, promised Chautemps only their votes in the Chamber of Deputies. Despite the tenuousness of this support, he made it this week the basis of a projected all-Radical Socialist cabinet...
...liberty from the Popular Front coalition supporting Chautemps, of which the Communists were part...