Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody was to get the idea that France would not fight if duly provoked. To this theme Leon Blum passed dexterously, seeking to reassure the Little Entente allies of France who today are afraid his new Socialist Cabinet may not prove trustworthy in their defense. "Because we had dedicated ourselves to peace," said the Premier, "we did not resist when the Rhineland was occupied in defiance of treaties. But, Messieurs, does anyone think our reaction would have been the same if [the Germans] had so much as touched our soil or the soil of other countries which we guarantee...
...Algiers, eager Communist and Socialist elements joined with Arabs in turbulent antics such as flinging stones at random among a junketing party of mayors from all parts of Algeria. Result: a proclamation of what amounted to martial law and further turbulence at Constantine and Oran. In Paris demonstrative war veterans filled the Champs Elysées with shouts of "Blum to the gallows!" and "Down with the Jews...
...free fight in which cafe patrons hurled water syphons, tables & chairs at police who hurled them back. Significantly, when the Gardes Mobiles marched in to restore order, these grim troopers were cheered with cries of "France for the French!" while the police were booed as tainted with the Socialist, Communist and Jewish aura of the Popular Front...
...even the strikes which tied up France's greatest automobile plants (TIME, June 8, et seq.), not even a new Socialist Premier and a new Chamber...
...that capital alone 100,000 workers of various sorts were striking. The railways were threatened with a strike likely to tie up all Spain. In a now typical instance of Madrid political carnage last week, three Fascists were mowed down by a machine-gun spitting from a presumptively Socialist...