DEATH OF FRENCH EX-PREMIER
(11 a.m.) PARIS, March 30. M. Leon Blum, the veteran French Socialist leader, and France’s first Jewish and first Socialist Prime Minister, died suddenly today within a week of his seventy-eighth birthday. He was Premier three times and failed by only 10 votes to head, the Government for the fourth time in November 1 047.
During the war he was tried at Vichy and imprisoned by the Germans. He recently served os an elder statesman on the Socialist Party and was editor of the party’s newspaper, I* Populaire.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23217, 31 March 1950, Page 5
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