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Men andTM Things Abroad

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W. N. EVER

EON BLUM's ability was His common knowledge,

quiet strength is a revela-- tion to all except those who know him really well.

The "expectation of life" of the Blum Governmeift has gone up teadily in the past weeks. If the Premier can solve his Anancial problem, lie may be in power for now era of years and start a

stability 1 French politics.

That is perhaps the greatest aced of the country-n proof that French democracy can provide France with a strong and stable government.

Granted that the "f" about finance in a big one. But it is largely a question of courage. And courage is a quality which Blum Ins in full measure.

Grasping the Nettle

OONER or later-probably sooBer→→ he will have to grasp the nettle

of devaluation. But lie is better able to do it how than he was a few weeks ngo.

Oddly-but then everything about them is odd there days-the mont ubalinate opponents of devaluation are the Oom.munists.

Maybe their devotion to the Cold Eltarlard is just a alavish imitation of Moscow fashions-for in Moscow these days the talk is all of soon having gold Coinage again.

Or maybe it is just part of their de termined cffort to live down their re volutionary part and to be more on- Hervative than the Conservatives, more Nationalist than the Nationalists

But there it is, 'And I la the tender care of the Communist leaders for the intere of the rentier, that maker it diffent for Blum to handle the finan- olal problem boldly.

Jingoism

How far Theres and his comrades

Ive been working under instruc-. Los from the Contilern, how far they have just been doing what try imagined would please Moscow, is not very clear.

But the facts are plain enough. ITench Communism has ceased to

ILA be Communist, or, even radical eutstanding guatlly is its Jingolat: Jinpelsin of the Left which 19 curloug Hke the Jugolum of the Right, and even begins to use the camNG phranes

Bo much so thint Nationalists like Henri de Keritia are getting ceriously worried at the competition of the Comi munists a appealing to the "ardent Uhauvinism which slumbers in the masses." and calf on the pariles of the Right not to let their thunder be BLOC from them.

Fust Anti-German TRUE, the Epantah issue has given

ihem the appurtunity to present their neo-nationalism in the gulse of sympathy for the Bpanich workers.

But their intervention campaign has, been far more directed against the German Reich than for the Spanish Itopublic.

Its real purpose has been to force Blum into open quarrel with litter. With Mussolini. Thorez kres ኪነ- nounced, he is willing to come lo nu understanding. "France," Perl writes. must try to regain the friendship of Ituly."

These Frencí Conamunist leaders-in----- fact, are not even anti-Pascist. They are simply anti-German-or, at any rate, ant! Naz-German

Even at home, they are quite pre- pared to link up with Fascism.

Bid to the Right NDEED. Thorez gave the whole show away on September 2, when lo announce that hils Party was willing to drop the Popular Front in favour of a "French Front," including all who wished to ensure the security and independence of the country."

It was an open bid to the Right to join with the Communists In over throwing Blum. The "French Front,"

THE

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RIGHT TURN

on the

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1936.

French Left

The French Premier with M. Thoroz and M. Salengro (Minister of the interior).

as the "Manchester Guardian's Paris

was ap correspondent drily noted,

Croix parently to include oven the de Feu"l

Blum Blood firm. The flight refused to nibble. And Thores climbed down. The "French Front" idea went back into cold storage. Thorez declared that of course the Communists would never vote against the Government.

"One Never Клоша Ir Blum continues to stand armiy

and reject attempts at blackmail, the Communists, grumbling and growl. ing, will probably keep to heel.

For em to break the Front and' Join with the Right in breaking the Government would be political auieide. They know it. And I should think that Moscow must realize it as well

Bull, one never known. And the new motel French Communlam ny ben problema and a danger in the future. It is becoming n National-Communism, more Nationalist than Communist,

SPAIN

Memories are Short VARS begin and go on. And very

sonu prople forget why and how they begun. It is the same with civil -war-with the Spanish civil war.

Incrssun! propaganda ha inade quite a lot of people really believe that The Spanish Reds" started the whole businers, and are responsible for all the horror has brought on the country.

With a supera cffrontery, some of the Spanish: Pasztal papers refer to the Government forers as "the rebels." I am waiting to see that example copied by lucir friends here.

I don't imagine that there are many readers - Any Dally Herald " whose minds are not quite clear on thint point. But all the same, inemories are short: and it is well to refresh them.

To Remind You

So I want to tell everybody Inter- ested in the Spanish war--and who is not to rend "The Drama" of Bpain,"

It written by Rumos Oliveira, who was until the other day London cor- respondent of " Socialista," ant is now Press Attaché at the Spani Embassy. It is published by the Na tional Counell of Labour, and it costs 21d. post free, from the Labour Publi cations Deparument. Transport House. Smith-square, S.W.1.

It tells not only the immediate story of the revolt, but the background of it. IL is the tale of the Republic founded pencefully in 1931, of the struggle of Spanish democracy against a media- villam of which we in England cun hardly conceive, of the bitter resist

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ance to free Institutions of a feudal aristocracy and a feudal Church,

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How I Began OLIVEIRA begins his atory with the bloodless revolution of April 14, 1931, when Bpain got rid of her Bour- bon-Habsburg dycasty without vlo- lence, and established-in the words of the new Constitution" a Democratic Republic, of workers of all cinases, or- ganised in a regime of Liberty and Justice."

He tells of the endeavours 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 antiage of the work- by the reaction, by the agrarian olmarchy oppressing the poorest pens- antry in Europe, by n Clerical oligarchy which used Christianity as a cloak for

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He tells of the intrigues which were paving the way for Fnecran: of the Asturian revolt of 1034 and its pless repression; of the great victory of the Left in the elections of inst February, and the new hope it brought to the masses.

And then of the revolt of the Ariny chiefs-n revolt staged in the name of patriotism and religion, but instl gated by the crudest material motives, The Republican Agrarian Reform has been the principal cause of the re bellion of the Army chiefs and officers, nearly all sons or brothers of land- owners.

"The big landowners knew that their old privileges could not inst any longer. The saine was occurring to the Church and to the military who have always had in Spain an aristocratic iden of the army,"

In defence of their class privileges they have plunged their country into rufn..

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