Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years which have followed, the House of Windsor has not only survived the General Strike, several Labor (Socialist) Cabinets and Depression, but it has carried onward & upward with an aggressive strength, a rising British devotion to the Crown and an increased influence by the Sovereign personally in guiding Cabinet affairs which were triumphantly due to the remarkable personal qualities of King George and Queen Mary...
...ready to set back Pierre Laval last week was the potent cabal inside the Radical Socialist Party which is violently hostile to the Premier. As a party the Radical Socialists, who hold a balance of power in the French Chamber, are supposed to be anti-Laval, but as individuals enough of them favor him to have made possible his Cabinet's dance on the tightrope of Power all these months. Last week the anti-Laval cabal forced a showdown within the party, demanding that hereafter Radical Socialists vote as a unit in the Chamber. At this showdown...
...internal Radical Socialist Party reasons, great and moderate Edouard Herriot ("Edouard I") was succeeded as President of the party this week by harsh and extremist Edouard Daladier ("Edouard II"). Six members of the Laval Cabinet were Radical Socialists. Of these M. Herriot resigned from the Cabinet in which he held the honorary portfolio Minister of State. The other five gloomily read a nonmandatory order of the day from the Executive Committee of the Radical Socialist Party implying that they should also resign from the Cabinet and excoriating M. Laval in complicated verbiage, saying that the Radical Socialist Party is "resolved...
...incvitable that Laval and his Radical Socialist party break up a partnership which every day was growing more embarrassing for all concerned. For while the Radical Socialist party is far from what the name would suggest to the American mind, being further on the conservative side than the French Socialists, it became impossible for such liberals as Deladier and Herriot to reconcile themselves to the Premier's increasingly reactionary tendencies...
...Socialist leader Leon Blum joyfully said that the Left Wingers "shook the Radical plum tree until Laval fell out." In judging the conduct of Laval during past months it appears that he never was really up in that plum tree. He was merely hiding behind...