Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation in France was an obvious setup for strife. A Premier popular with large elements of the masses, Leon Blum had resigned fortnight ago under middle-class pressure exerted by the Senate. Here & there in Paris last week groups of workers drifted about raising such plaintive cries as "Blum to Power!" Nobody of importance in France paid the least attention at this stage of the game, least of all Communist Leader Maurice Thorez and Socialist Leader Blum himself. These two had decided upon a policy of lying low for the present, letting the more moderate new Premier of France, genial...
...Premier's grip is particularly tight on the Foreign Office and the Exchequer...
Down but far from out, Socialist Blum had reappeared in the Chautemps Cabinet as Vice Premier and Minister of State, and back with him were 21 erstwhile Blum Cabinet members, including Yvon Delbos who continues as Foreign Minister. The one Socialist thrown to the Senate wolves was Blum's droopy-eyed Finance Minister Vincent Auriol who made such an utter mess of devaluation, but even shifty Auriol was included in the Chautemps Cabinet, as Minister of Justice. To get somebody who is of the Left and yet knows something about handling the intricacies of State finance, Premier Chautemps...
That Camille Chautemps should today be Premier of France once more proves the old Paris saw that nothing can kill a statesman's career in this interesting country.* Lawyer Chautemps was politically assassinated, so it seemed, by purported revelations and much seeming evidence linking him with French Public Scandal No. 1-I'Affaire Stavisky (TiME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.). Diving into complete retirement for six months, M. Chautemps, when he cautiously emerged, found many people thought the Stavisky Scandal had been so overdone that they actually regarded him as a martyr to evil tongues. Suave, tactful...
...Example: Joseph Caillaux, who was banished and barely escaped being shot during the War for relations with the enemy, today is just about France's most influential Senator. He organized the ousting of Blum as Premier...