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King Leopold offered the Premiership to Socialist Leader Emile Vandervelde. The Catholics refused to support him. Last week the King turned again to van Zeeland. The "folded arms" strikes sweeping France had been copied by Belgian stevedores, diamond cutters, miners, munitions workers. Less tolerant than French police, Belgian police threw the strikers forcibly out of mines and factories they had occupied. In this atmosphere, Socialists and Liberals still refused to support van Zeeland. The King asked him to try again. Again he failed. The King spent a day talking turkey to Belgian politicians, told van Zeeland to try once more...
...radical Left rash of riots and arsons (TIME, March 30 et ante). In France last month's Popular Front election victory was followed last week, in precisely the same pattern, by Left-wing direct action, designed to compromise Socialist Leon Blum on the eve of his premiership. In France it took the form of an epidemic of "folded arms" strikes or "lock-ins" in munitions, airplane and automobile factories...
...Blum was most anxious to entice Radical Socialist (Conservative) Edouard Herriot into his Cabinet as Foreign Minister. Yet all his cajolery last week could not get a "Yes" out of the man the Socialists had helped to vote out of the Premiership in 1932 because he wanted to pay the War Debt to the U. S. M. Blum is not likely to become his own Foreign Minister as he believes the Premier should hold no Cabinet portfolio. Meantime M. Blum was busy promulgating the means by which he expects to guarantee France peace & power in Europe: a six-sided mutual...
President Azaña is a real Republican, but the Socialists who swept him into power in the February elections want a "proletarian dictatorship." Last week he offered the Premiership to the only Socialist leader who does not believe in revolution : Indalecio Prieto. Prieto declined it. President Azaña offered it to the Radical Democratic leader. Speaker of the Cortes Diego Martinez Barrio, who also declined. Finally he offered it to another Republican, Minister of the Interior Santiago Casares Quiroga, who for two months has had the delicate job of suppressing Socialist riots and church-burnings without making...
Last week Egypt passed into the Wafd's power when Premier Aly Maher Pasha presented Prince Mohammed Ali with the resignations of his no-party Cabinet and the Premiership went to the Wafd leader, burly, big-voiced Mustafa El Nahas Pasha...