Word: sarraute
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...signaled by releasing 10,000 white "Doves of Peace" from a huge, flower-decked cage. The 2.000,000 citizens of Paris who had turned out to sing and cheer realized in advance that they would scarcely glimpse Their Majesties, for every Frenchman knew that Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut was going to take excessive measures for their protection-and knew why. In 1934, the assassination of Jugoslav King Alexander at Marseille occurred after Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut had taken only ordinary precautions. He had to resign from the Cabinet in disgrace, and only thanks to the great elasticity...
...mile away, the cases exploded. The trucks were left two tangles of twisted steel in a puddle of burning oil and blood. Fourteen men were killed instantly. Parts of the bodies were blown 200 feet away. Only four of the 14 could be identified. Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut promised a formal state funeral for the remains...
...Chautemps Cabinet further showed it meant business last week by vesting dictatorial powers for the governing of North Africa in a close friend of the Premier, onetime Premier Albert Sarraut. ''You are instructed." M. Sarraut was told. "to present a survey of the colonial situation to the Cabinet as soon as possible and to outline the measures of control you intend to take...
...Blum and Sarraut together met the delegations of strikers and employers. Though his only legal standing was that of a deputy, M. Blum persuaded the employers to back down, give the workers a 10% raise, an annual week's vacation with pay, no more overtime. Of 70,000 strikers in firms busy on Government armament contracts, 60,000 this week went back to work. Delighted union officials threatened to shut down a new batch of factories...
This week, just before the new Parliament met and Premier Sarraut hastened to make way for M. Blum, that anxious old gentleman warned a Socialist Party congress that extreme Left sabotage would invite a Fascist triumph. Said he: "Some people say that ours will be a Kerensky government, that it will be working to prepare the way for a Lenin, who will be the one to benefit. That is not so. In France, if some Kerensky were to fail, it would not be a Lenin who would be the beneficiary...