Any Premier of France can tell roughly how he is doing by his success or failure to bring the Chamber and Senate cheering to their feet by a climactic purple passage or two leading up to La Patrie! Last week Premier Leon Blum, an intellectual of parts, had the nerve-racking experience of finding that neither the Chamber nor Senate would spark to a speech in which he used all the sure-fire La Patrie twists, introducing his new Popular Front Cabinet.
In what veteran Paris correspondents saw as "a curious victory along strictly party...
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