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...this scared the Radical Socialists, the Popular Front moderate wing, out of their wits. Threatened with the loss of their essential support or with domination by his unruly Communist allies in the next Chamber of Deputies, Leon Blum last week hastened to confer with lame-duck Premier Albert Sarraut...
Minister of Marine-Albert Sarraut...
...best of France's ability, according to M. Blum, does not include Sanctions. Nevertheless harassed Premier Sarraut last week indicated that France would ask the League of Nations to put off a vote on continuing Sanctions until next month...
Meantime the lame-duck Sarraut Government lashed about for foreign exchange speculators to tag as franc raiders, expelled one luckless Pole from the country as an example, discussed innumerable measures for the "defense'' of the franc, hoped it could pass on to the incoming "Popular Front" the unpleasant task of actual devaluation. Cried Finance Minister Marcel Régnier: "So long as I am Finance Minister there will be no measures restricting the gold standard. . . . We have ample reserves for our defense and the Bank of France possesses every means of action needed...
Indeed, Premier Albert Sarraut called for reassurances from Leon Blum, millionaire Socialist leader of the Popular Front. Professing surprise that uncertainty surrounded his program, that cultured old Jew announced: "The entire efforts of the Popular Front aim at reviving all the sources of national activity. And such revival is impossible without large confidence from the country itself. Therefore, we would be going directly against our own aims were we to precipitate disorders and tumult...