Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without a single dissenting vote the French Chamber passed a resolution congratulating Mr. Roosevelt.* The Speaker of the Chamber, Radical Socialist Edouard Herriot, voiced his "personal satisfaction."Socialist Premier Blum cried: "I am most happy at the triumph of President Roosevelt, for whom I have the greatest admiration!" As a respected editorial voice speaking for the moderate Left, roughly comparable in France to the U. S. Democratic Party, famed Jules Sauerwein of Le Paris-Soir exhulted: "Henceforth democracy has its Chief! After his brilliant triumph President Roosevelt has become the statesman on whom all eyes will be turned from every...
Intellectuals of a Socialist or Communist stamp meanwhile in Paris made life miserable for Premier Lêon Blum who continued his harassed attempts to remain neutral. In French Communist circles it was said that Communist Deputies supporting the Socialist Premier's coalition or "Popular Front" had received orders from the Moscow Comintern that Barcelona, the great stronghold of Spanish Radicalism, "must be saved at any cost, even if it means French intervention in a form which would provoke war with Germany, and irrespective of the fate of Madrid?' It was even said in Spain that Joseph Stalin...
...solid block of 300 French daily and weekly newspapers began last month pounding away at the so-called "New Deal Cabinet" of Socialist Premier Léon Blum. Over and over they hurled charges of which the most effective was the weekly Gringoire's incessant repetition that during the War the present Minister of the Interior, Roger Salengro, deserted from the front-line trenches and rode off into Germany on a bicycle...
...against this that M. Guimier and his friends have been waging what became an open vendetta when the Premier forced him out of Havas. Under the new law the Premier's own newsorgan, Le Populaire, will have to print that it is largely subsidized by the Socialist Party: L'Humanité will have to print that it is subsidized by the Communist Party; the Action Française will have to print that it is subsidized by the Royalist Party- and none of these three Paris papers will mind in the least. They constitute openly the bought...
...Socialist Labor's John Aiken got some 7,000 votes, to 33,000 polled by Verne L. Reynolds...