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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Last Weapon | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Daniel N. Dunlop had been dead a year when the Troisième Conference Mondiale de l'Énergie et Deuxieme Congrès de la Commission Internationale des Grands Barrages was called to order last week. The Third World Power Conference and Second Congress on Large Dams was composed of an official committee from each of the 52 nations represented. But any of the 2,000,000,000 inhabitants of the world wanting to hear and talk about l'énergie-not only electricity, gas and waterpower, but also coal and oil-was entitled, by paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Third Power, Second Dams | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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