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Men and Things Abroad
by
W. N. EVER
EON BLUM's ability was common knowledge. His
quiet strength is a rescia- tion to all except those. who know him really well.
of the The expectation of life Blum Government has gone up atedly in the past weeks. If the Premier can solve his financial problem, he may be in power for new era of years and start a stability in French politics.
That la perhaps the greatest need of the country-a proof that rench democracy can provide Frauce with a strong and stable government,
Granted that the "if" about Anance is a big one, But it is largely a question of courage. And courage is a quality which Blum has in full measure, ·
Grasping the Nettle
CLOONIT or Inter —protsatsly somer--- fe will have to grasp the nettle
of devaltation. But he is better able to do it now than he was a few weeks Ago.
Oddlift then everything about them is odd these days the most obstinale opponents of démluation are the Cominunists.
Maybe their devotion to the Gold Standard is just a slavish imilation of Moscow faliters-for in Moscow lear dapa the talk is all of zoon having gold coltage nzsit,
Or maybe it is just part of their de- termined effort to live down thetr, TV- volutionary past and to be mare Con- perentive Man the Conservatives, maire Nationalist than the Nationalists.
there it is. And it is the tender enre of the Communist lendern for the Interest of the rentier that makes it diffeal for Blum to handle the nam cal problem boldly,
Jingoism
Jow far Thorez and his comrades have been working under Instrue- Lion from the Comintern, how far they have Just been dotar what they imosined would please Moscow, is not Very clear
That the fpats are plain enough. French Corabiar Itus used tox Communist, or even ræitent. I outstanding quality Ita Jagoism.
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Storm of the Left which uriously Be the Jingelsin of the itičkal, surori even begins to the prazen.
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Fo much so that Nationalists Bi+ Henri de Kerillis nte getting; aeriously worried at the competition of the Com murals in appealing to the "ardent Chausints which alumbers in the
ses." and call an the parties of the Right not to let their thunder be stolen from them.
Just Anti-German TRUE. the Spanish issue has given
them the opportunity to present Chinir neo-nationalism in the guise al sympathy for the Spanish workers.
But their intervention campaign has bren far more directed against the German Reich than for the Spanish Republic.
At-
Its real purpose has bren la forme Blum into open quarrel with Hitler. With Mussolint. Thorez has nounced, he is willing to come to an understanding. France," Perl welles. "must try to regain, ite friendship of Italy."
These French, Communist leaders, in fact, are not even anti-Fascist. Thes are simply anti-German-or, at any rate, anti Nazi-German.
Even at home they are quite pre- pared to lak up with Pastbom.
Bid to the Right INDEED, Therez gave the whole show away gy-Sthtember 2, wird hr announced that his Party was willing to drop the Popular Front in favour of a "French Front," Including 'wished to ensure the security all who and independence of the country."
It was an open bld to the Right to Join with the Communists in over- Throwing Blum. The "French Front."
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MONDAY,
OCTOBER - 26,
1936.
RIGHT
TURN
on the French Left
The French Premier with M. Thorez and M. Salengre (Minister, of the Interior).
as the "Manchester Guardian's" Paris was ap- correspondent drily noted. parently to include even the "Croix de Feu"!
Blum stood firm. The Right refused And Therez, clliibed down. to nibble. The French Front" idea went back into cold storage. Thorez declared that of course the Communists would never vote against the Government.
"One Never Knows"
IF Dlum continues to stand firmly and reject attempts at blackmail, the Communists, grumbling and growl. ing. will probably keep to heel.
For them to break the Front and Join with the Right in breaking the Government would be political suicide. They know it. And I should think that Moscow must reulise it as well.
Stil, one never knowa Aud tir new motel French Comms may be n problem and a danger in the future. it is brcoming a National-Commentsm, more Nationalist hon Courist.
SPAIN
Memories are Short
AVAUS beggar and go on
And very
ruba prople torget why and how they began, in the Bane with efvil war with the Spanish evil war.
made Interesant propunganida Bus quite a lot of people really believe that the Spanish "Reds" slaried the whole business, and are responsible for al the horror it has brought on the country:
With a superb effrontery, some ni the Spanish. Fascist papers refer to Government forces as the rebels." 1 am waiting to see that example copied by their friends here.
I don't kunne that there are many
reader - any Dally Herald whose mings are not quite cleur on But
the mine. that point, memories are short: and, it is wet to refresh them,
To Remind You
So I want to tell everybody inter ested in the Spanish War--ant who is no-to read "The Drama of Spain."
It is written by Names Oliveira, wher was until the other day London cur- respondent of "E Socialistn." and now Press Atinché at the Spanish Embassy. J is published by the Na- Lional Commeil of Labour, and il en'* d. post free, from the Labour Publi- cations Department, Transport House, Smilli-square, S.WE
It tells not only the lenmediate story of the revolt, but the background of li
is the tale of the Republie Founded peacefully in 1931, of the struggle of Spank democracy against a media vatism of which we in England, eun hardly conceive, of the bitter resist.
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It puts the whole thing into Rs firn! And the proper perspective. condition of sane political judgment is to see things in proper perspectiva.
How It Began OLIVEIRA begins his story with the
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without vio- bon-Habsburg dynasty lence, and established--in the words of Democratic the new Constitution-“ | Republic, of workers of all classes, or- ganised in a regime of Liberty and Justice."
He tells of the endeavour to solve "the three great historical problems of Spain: the position of the Church. the agrarian question and the problem of regional autonomy."
He tells of the sabotage of the work by the renction, by the garlan aligarchy oppressing the poorest, peas. antry in Europe. try a Clerical oligarchy which used Christianity as a elonk for
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He tells of the trigues which were Fascism: of was for paving the the Asturlan revolt of 1934 and it pitiless represalon: of the great victory of the Left in the elections of lust, February, and the new hope it brought to the measOS,
And then of the revolt. of the Army the nine chiefs-a revolt staged i
of patriotism and religion, but lost- gated by the crudest material motives, "The Republican Agrarian Reform has been the principal cause of the re- bellion of the Army cluefs and officers, nearly att sons or brothers of land.
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"The big landowners know that their old privileges could not last any Innger. The same was occurring to the Church and to the military who have aristocratic always had in Spain an klen of the army."
In defence of their class privileges they have plunged their country into Tuin.
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AM always accking good advice for you, and this time I have found a corker. Listen:. "Look out towards the West along the path of the sun, to the great democracies of the New World who share our language and our liber- tlea."
I the writer had referred only to British communities thereabouts I hauki have anld mikily "Heart Heart" but this gorgeous generallaa- tion has made me his rapturous aup. Porter for life,
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