Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris no brilliant showing was being made by the Republic. Even the threat of Adolf Hitler's rise to power as Chancellor of Germany had not broken the French Chamber deadlock between the Radical Socialists (moderates) and the Socialists (mild radicals). For the third time since last June a Radical Socialist Cabinet was formed, the job of Premier having been given by President Albert Lebrun to a second-string politician, former War Minister Edouard Daladier (TIME, Feb. 6). And for the third time Socialist Party Leader Leon Blum served notice that he would merely "tolerate" the new Radical Socialist...
Even more ominous was the conduct of Edouard Herriot, again elected Leader of the Radical Socialist Party in caucus last week. Though he supported Premier Daladier in the Chamber, M. Herriot gave the impression that he hopes the new Cabinet will soon fall, hopes to succeed it as Premier of a "National Government" above party. In the Chamber, just before the vote of confidence. Radical Socialist Deputies significantly did not cheer when Leader Herriot lukewarmly appealed "for as large a majority as possible" for Radical Socialist Premier Daladier...
...been saved. It won a vote of confidence 348 to 243. The Chamber voted 400 to 181 to sit all night and began to vote sections of the budget, voted 65 of the 150 sections. Suddenly up popped an item of 5% reduction in the pay of civil servants. Socialist objections touched off pandemonium. "My heart is torn," cried stringy-haired Socialist Blum, "but I am unable to vote with my friends!" In an incoherent scramble all sorts of Deputies, eager to curry favor with civil service constituents, followed the Socialist bolt. The Paul-Boncour Cabinet fell...
...appointing this Cabinet," warned the Socialist Vorwärts, "the President has assumed a fearful responsibility. He is the guarantor that this Government shall not depart from a constitutional basis and that it shall resign immediately as soon as defeated in the Reichstag...
Starting from scratch again, but with confidence in his own spellbindery, Adolf Hitler slowly worked up the fantastic party he calls National Socialist, Nazi Fascist. Its program consists of stentorian appeals to every form of German prejudice. Essentially Nationalists and patrioteers, the Nazis insert "Socialist" into their party's name simply as a lure to discontented workers...