Ominous directions
Francisco Franco in 1936. The rise of the far right across Europe in the 1930s divided opinion here. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesEmmanuel Macron hopes the glamour of hosting the Olympics will distract the French from their divisive politics for a while, but the problems facing his centrist bloc have worsened following the snap general election he called to halt the advancing far right National Rally.
Owen Sheehy Skeffington, Andrée’s husband, wrote that Blum quickly introduced promised wage rises and paid holidays for workers. In his column in the current affairs magazine Ireland To-day, Owen observed that press coverage of France’s left-wing government was disproportionately alarmist. Much of the right-wing abuse directed at Blum arose from the fact that he was Jewish.
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