Word: salengro
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...doctor was called. Noon Paris papers announced officially the natural death of the Minister of Interior by heart failure. In the late afternoon Lille buzzed with rumors of suicide. These became official at 11:30 p. m. and M. Salengro was an nounced to have placed wet cloths around his kitchen windows to seal them, turned on the gas stove, died asphyxiated...
...great excitement and with tears streaming down their faces, Premier Leon Blum and Brother Henri Salengro had meanwhile arrived at the dead Mayor's home. Lille reporters found them each with a letter in his hand, gesticulating and distraught. The Press was not permitted to examine either letter but was asked to take down both as read off by M. Blum and M. Salengro, as follows...
...Salengro, Socialism & Spain. The Radical French "stayin" strikes of last summer were put down by virile M. Salengro when they were becoming a national menace (TIME, June 8 et seq.) and this week, as nervous Premier Blum temporarily took charge of the Ministry of Interior himself, fresh stayin strikes erupted. Communist Leader Maurice Thorez turned what was to have been a Paris mass meeting of mourning for Suicide Salengro into a howling mob which screamed, "Cannon for Spain!" and "Down with Fascism!" at Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Vainly he shouted, "I came here thinking we would all unite in commemorating...
...came the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, as the proletariat chanted, "Fascists are Assassins!" With tears streaming down his cheeks, Premier Blum promised to rush onto French statute books a law modeled on the British law of libel, strictest in the world. "Roger Salengro would not have asked any other vengeance!" explained M. Blum, who seemed to think that unless he took such "vengeance" upon French newspaper proprietors the mob might rend them limb from limb. At latest reports the entire metallurgical industry of Lille was paralyzed by a stayin strike vaguely linked with...
...German lawyer successfully defended Salengro with the following amazing plea to the German court martial: "Meine Herren, you must not sentence this Frenchman to death, for, France is a gallant country, and had a German prisoner in France committed the offense with which Salengro is charged we would consider it our duty to bow deeply before...