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...Interior who had set about ruthlessly suppressing dissension in the land, then roared that he would order a lettre de cachet (imprisonment without trial) of anyone advocating separate peace-including Cabinet Ministers. The argument crackled and burned. Suddenly heavy-faced Edouard Daladier stormed out of the room. Sarraut and de Monzie, spaniel-like Ministers of Education and Public Works, followed...
Interior: Albert Sarraut...
...confidence in the Army he has built. During the Munich crisis he believed the French Army was ready to fight, and General Gamelin quietly went to London to tell the statesmen so. He got about the same attention that he got in 1936 from short-lived Premier Sarraut when he told the Government he could chase the Germans out of the Rhineland if they wanted him to. The thoroughgoing General would not agree to shove off, however, without ordering a general mobilization and M. Sarraut feared it was too close to the general election to risk it. The history...
Month ago the estimated number of Spanish refugees on French soil was 380,000. Last week French Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut revised the estimate upward to 450,000. Moreover, far from decreasing, the refugee population was steadily increasing. Hundreds were still slipping over the Catalan border. The Loyalist Navy's surrender in French Africa last week brought 4,000 more...
...evening's entertainment by such world favorites as Maurice Chevalier and Yvonne Printemps, staged for the King and Queen and about 120 guests. The party could be seen through the brightly lighted windows of the Palace. Popular cheers and impatience increased, and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut squirmed nervously on his chair, several times half rose as if to order the curtains drawn, to shut out vague Danger. After the last star turn, the Queen, then the King were seen expressing themselves earnestly to the President and Mme Lebrun, finally won their point and appeared on the low balcony...