Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, although Blum's body had been bedded, the spirit of Blum was the strongest personal force in the Chamber of Deputies, thrusting for ratification of a military pact of mutual assistance between Russia and France. In fact Socialist Blum was so much in the hair of Premier Albert Sarraut that the Paris topical weekly Aux Ecoutes cartooned the Premier as a dog covered with fleas, each flea having the face of Léon Blum (see cut, p. 19). Exclaimed Aux Ecoutes, accurately reflecting the dilemma in which French politicians found themselves last week: "Abominable though...
...submit the Franco-Soviet Pact to The Hague Court to discover whether it violates the Locarno Pact. In the Chamber he urged ratification halfheartedly, almost apologetically. Bleating that the object of the Pact is "not to encircle Germany," he added with a French twist, "It is only the spirit of aggression which is to be encircled by this pact! It has been signed in the absence of Germany with regret for her absence and in the hope of her eventual adherence. France has never ceased to desire to draw Germany into the general work of guaranteeing peace. Our most ardent...
...Premier? To Léon Blum there was never any question but that the Franco-Soviet Pact must be ratified-even with the dangers of touching off hair-trigger Nazis, incurring possible rupture of the Locarno Pact, and entering the bear-like embrace of Bolshevik Russians. His Socialist spirit is fixed with religious fanaticism; he hates Nazis as they can only be hated by one who is a Socialist, a Frenchman and a Jew; and he hopes with something like passionate prophecy that French voters next April will for the first time give French Socialism a clear mandate to form...
...French, I have held official positions. ... I speak French perfectly and without a trace of foreign accent; even my facial features are free of particularly conspicuous racial traits. I am entitled to consider myself assimilated, and I feel sure that there is no element, however subtle, of the French spirit, French honor or French culture which is alien to me. Yet, though I feel myself to be genuinely French, I do, at the same time, feel that I am a Jew. ... I have always known that a Jew can be nothing...
...theatre folk who go to Russia to profit artistically rather than financially, the U. S. S. R. seems to be indeed the millennium of the show business. Audiences seem to like everything they get. The spirit of experimentation is vigorous and widespread. And what puts the golden cap of perfection on the whole situation is that the State pays all the bills...