Why Popular Front Failed
The French Socialist leader and former Prime Minister (Mr. Leon Blum) made at the party conference at St. Nazairc the candid but—to him—rather unpleasant confession that the chief reason why the Front Populaire experiment failed was that his Government had not managed to keep tho working class in order. Both the financial difficulties which were to beset the Front Populaire Government in 1936-37, and the adverse vote of the Senate by which it was finally overthrown m June, 1937, were, M. Blum suggested, caused by the chronic disorder in French industry, and by the fact that while to M. Blum, Front Populairo wan a reformist experiment, to be carried out within tho framework of capitalist society, a large part of the French working class mistook it for a revolutionary movpment, with the stay-in strike as its principal weapon. “The Senate,” he said, “would not have overthrown us had it not had the clear impression that the working class waa refusing to follow the Government’s advice. ”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 172, 24 July 1939, Page 10
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