Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris the social reforms, devaluation and so-called "New Deal" introduced by Socialist Premier Leon Blum were giving his Cabinet racking headaches last week, for Finance Minister Vincent Auriol was spectacularly running short of cash, so short that with much trepidation he was getting up his nerve to launch a 10½ billion franc (about $480,000,000) Government loan...
Like the Roosevelt New Dealers, who are loudly praised by Premier Blum on frequent public occasions, the present French coalition of Communists, Socialists and Radical-Socialists take a confident view of themselves as much holier than Mammon, and Finance Minister Auriol has a habit of alternating blandishments and threats to thrifty Frenchmen who< are comfortably off. Only a few months ago M. Auriol tricked investors by bringing out a "baby bond issue" with gushing Socialist appeals to French proletarians to buy, then devalued the franc in which these bonds are repayable 40% (TIME, Oct. 5). By last week the upping...
...give his Communist and Socialist supporters something to tell the proletarians back home, Premier Blum issued a Cabinet decree "nationalizing" the Schneider-Creusot works, biggest French armorers, and commonly called by irate Red & Pink orators such names as "The Blood-Sucking Armament Octopus." There was no reason to suppose that Ramsay Delano MacBlum was not perfectly sincere in issuing this decree, but it does not go into effect on any particular date. Eventual action is made to turn on the advice of the French General Staff, which is about as keen to turn Schneider-Creusot over to political Reds & Pinks...
Because Rexist Degrelle is a thorn in their flesh and because they appreciate that Premier van Zeeland stands for traditional, quiet Belgian politics and for no fancy isms, the three parties in the Belgian Cabinet coalition - Catholic, Liberal, Socialist - agreed to offer no rival candidates. The stage was thus set for a fight between parliamentary government and Rexism, a fight in which Degrelle will get no support that the wily Premier can possibly sidetrack...
...gist of the matter," he said, "is that it is difficult for a socialist government to devaluate; for if devaluation is to be successful, wage increases of large proportions should not be encouraged; and the influx of capital which is very helpful, if not absolutely necessary, is not forthcoming...