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Gogi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 08:22 PM
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What's old is new, part deux.
From 'Paris was Yesterday, 1925-1939:

"Bloody Tuesday" (1934)
'Five simple, stupid steps led up the February 6. In their ineptness, they could serve as easy lessons on how to make a revolution. (1)Premier Chautemps's refusal to retire after the Stavisky scandal had involved his Radical-Socialist party (especially after the Oustric, Sacazan, Aeropostale, and Hanau scandals had involved nearly everybody else's party). Chautemps resigned only after the Boulevard Saint-Germain riots, and the clear evidence of insults and paving bricks that the public was tired of hushed swindles, lost savings, what were called party loyalties, and, worse, what were called Corpse Cabinets, consisting of men revived from a previous dead regime. (2) To pacify the public, Daladier was called as Premier, he being another member of the Radical-Socialist party, by this time the last party Parisians wanted to see, hear or smell. After promisng to investigate the scandal and put in new, lively men, Daladier hushed up the scandal and set in the customary Cabinet cadavers.'
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