Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Leon Blum arose last week in the Chamber of Deputies and spoke for two hours in defense of his 80-word bill to give the Popular Front Cabinet totalitarian powers. "There is nothing to prevent us from profiting by certain experiences of the totalitarian regimes," observed this persuasive Socialist. "The German example is eloquent in this respect. The democracies cannot longer remain in a state of inferiority compared with the totalitarian countries...
This was proclaiming political bankruptcy of the French Republic as a form of government, although the Communist-Socialist-Radical Socialists have won all their electoral victories as champions of French Democracy. The Chamber, amid much muttering, finally supported Léon Blum 311-to-250-the smallest majority since he formed his Popular Front Cabinet -and he prepared to face the Senate...
Paris had been expecting for at least three weeks that the Senate would upset this second Blum Cabinet as it upset the first, but Paris was surprised when Mr. Blum's Socialist henchmen brought out a crowd of 10,000, few of whom, correspondents reported, looked like Frenchmen, most seeming to be Eastern European unemployed. This mob whirled toward the Senate, tearing up iron grillwork on the boulevards to use as clubs, but were stoutly withstood by police and steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles, "Down with the Senate! Hang these old men!" cried the mobsters and fell to chanting...
...minutes the Senators had killed the second Popular Front Cabinet 223-to-49, and numerous Senators fulminated that their assembly is the one which represents the geographical districts of France,* and primarily the peasantry and French landholders, large & small. Meanwhile, away went Socialist Blum, hugging the fine chance he had created for again arousing proletarian wrath against "The Dotards." Technically the Cabinet need not have resigned, for in the Senate the Premier had not posed the question of confidence, but he and his Popular Front ministers trooped off to hand their resignations to President Albert Lebrun who immediately named...
Kenosha is a picturesque manufacturing town (pop. 50,262) with many churches, and sufficiently labor-minded to support a weekly, Kenosha Labor, edited by Socialist Paul Porter. Last December its American...