http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/02/leon-blum/ It's a Jewish Blog! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:17:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jewlicious.com/2007/02/leon-blum/#comment-528343 Tom Morrissey Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:55:35 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=3155#comment-528343 Blum (effectively, a front man for the Stalinist French Communist Party) and the Front Populaire were a disaster for France, full stop. While Blum wasn't in power long enough to screw things up in May 1940, he declined to oppose Hitler and Mussolini in Spain, standing pat as Republican Spain met its violent demise. (A feeble response, indeed, to the anti-semitic French right.) Blum (effectively, a front man for the Stalinist French Communist Party) and the Front Populaire were a disaster for France, full stop. While Blum wasn’t in power long enough to screw things up in May 1940, he declined to oppose Hitler and Mussolini in Spain, standing pat as Republican Spain met its violent demise. (A feeble response, indeed, to the anti-semitic French right.)

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