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...under middle-class pressure exerted by the Senate. Here & there in Paris last week groups of workers drifted about raising such plaintive cries as "Blum to Power!" Nobody of importance in France paid the least attention at this stage of the game, least of all Communist Leader Maurice Thorez and Socialist Leader Blum himself. These two had decided upon a policy of lying low for the present, letting the more moderate new Premier of France, genial Camille Chautemps, a briar-sucking Radical Socialist, find money for a busted Treasury, support for the franc, and technicians able to grapple with France...
...Radical French "stayin" strikes of last summer were put down by virile M. Salengro when they were becoming a national menace (TIME, June 8 et seq.) and this week, as nervous Premier Blum temporarily took charge of the Ministry of Interior himself, fresh stayin strikes erupted. Communist Leader Maurice Thorez turned what was to have been a Paris mass meeting of mourning for Suicide Salengro into a howling mob which screamed, "Cannon for Spain!" and "Down with Fascism!" at Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Vainly he shouted, "I came here thinking we would all unite in commemorating Roger Salengro...
...prime political issue before the Popular Front Government of Socialist Premier Leon Blum. The answer was "No," reluctantly admitted Minister of the Interior Roger Salengro after the French Senate had threatened a vote of no-confidence if it were "Yes." The answer was "Yes," indignantly replied Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, whose 72 votes are indispensable to Premier Blum's coalition majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Said Irish-faced M. Thorez: "M. Salengro was not well inspired in letting it be believed that force can be employed against the working class...
...what he had meant by "No." To workmen occupying factories illegally, he said, the Government would first send the local mayor to call them out, then a labor union delegate, then the local member of Parliament, and finally, police without bayonets to shoo strikers out "with care." Placated Communist Thorez thereupon threw his weight back to the Popular Front, saying. "The workers must know how to end strikes...
...work. Even the French Communist Party, which at first had encouraged and sought to foment strikes, grew appalled by the extent to which they had got beyond what anyone could imagine was Communist Party control. In a speech which the Socialist Premier himself might have made, apple-cheeked Maurice Thorez, head man of French Communism, sought to stem the spontaneous, nationwide strikes, declared: "Strikers must know how to end their strike. They must even know how to consent to a compromise so as not to lose any of their force and especially so as not to facilitate any campaign...