Word: salengro
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...only hard-boiled member of elderly and intellectual Premier Leon Blum's present Cabinet was Minister of Interior Roger Salengro, and paradoxically it was he who last week committed suicide...
...Salengro's hard-boiled father, after killing a man in a riot spent the rest of his life in prison at hard labor for manslaughter. His wife was accused some years ago by Communist newsorgans of having been, during the War, one of those hard-boiled women who made easier the lot of soldiers, and in her grief at this accusation Mme Salengro died of heart disease. The Communists, having joined with the Socialists to make possible the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Blum, later turned from foes of Socialist Salengro into friends, but he found other foes. Ever...
...attacks on M. Salengro have rehearsed, week after week, assertions that during the War he, as a French soldier and cyclist dispatch rider, deserted to the enemy. This was rammed home by Gringoire with endless cartoons of "Cyclist Salengro" (see cuts) and by this tag the Minister was nightly mocked by comedians in Paris music halls. Friends of M. Salengro said that a "Commission of Honor" headed by the Chief-of-Staff, General Marie Gustave Gamelin, recently investigated his War record and cleared him of desertion. Enemies cracked back that General Gamelin did not head an official Commission of Honor...
...commit suicide, and the Royalist Action Française accused the Left of "exploiting a dead body." Numbers were on the side of the Left and of suicide, however, and all over France workers by hundreds, then thousands, turned out to parade with banners such as "GRINGOIRE ASSASSINATED SALENGRO!", "FASCISM HAS KILLED SALENGRO!", "TO JAIL WITH SALENGRO'S SLAYERS...
What Were The Facts? Being a widower, M. Salengro lived alone at Lille, Mayor of that big city (pop. 200,000) and popular for his energetic efforts among the poor. His housekeeper had cooked his dinner, left it in the warm oven, and had gone home as usual. His chauffeur went home after leaving the Minister of Interior at his door, and in Paris his secretary at the Ministry had already taken a long-distance call in which M. Salengro said that he felt tired and begged to be excused from a scheduled appointment next day with his friend...