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...Americans think of yanking a pitcher out of the box, were not unduly upset-not even when a report got about that the Cabinet had fallen because one box of ballots had accidentally gone uncounted. Already those in the know had heard who the next Premier would be: Paul Reynaud, brilliant Finance Minister, considered No. 2 in the Cabinet of which Edouard Daladier had been...
...eyed French President Albert Lebrun no sooner called M. Reynaud next day than the dapper new Premier promptly announced M. Daladier as his No. 2, retained him as Minister of National Defense-the key post which Daladier has held continuously for the past four years since it was given him in the first Popular Front Cabinet of Socialist Léon Blum...
...that no Socialist be taken in-although the Socialists are the most numerous party in the Chamber. But its main supporters in the Center, the misnamed Radical Socialists, were often joined by the Socialists after the collapse of the Popular Front (TIME, April 18, 1938). Last week new Premier Reynaud boldly slapped down a Cabinet list containing three Socialists: Minister of Justice Albert Serol, Minister of Blockade Georges Monnet, Minister of Pensions Albert Rivi...
...Thus the Reynaud Cabinet was simply the Daladier Cabinet revamped, although it had a broader political base. But it was a Cabinet headed by an oldtime foe of appeasement, a man who had always distrusted the Nazis and demanded action against them...
PARIS -- Premier Paul Reynaud went to the people of France tonight in a radio talk modeled on President Roosevelt's "fireside chats," and promised them that "we shall act" in the war against Germany...