Word: troisi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main objective was to block aid from the U.S. In this crisis, who could form a government? President Vincent Auriol asked 75-year-old Socialist Léon Blum to try. But M. Blum, it seemed, was living in an old man's dream-the dream of a troisième force (third force) which would hold the democratic bastions against Gaullism and Communism alike. In his request to the Assembly for a vote of confidence, Léon Blum antagonized the growing nucleus of De Gaulle adherents. He missed his majority by nine votes...