Léon BLUM (1872-1950). MANUSCRIT autograph,... - Lot 234 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Moulins

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Léon BLUM (1872-1950). MANUSCRIT autograph,... - Lot 234 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Moulins
Léon BLUM (1872-1950). MANUSCRIT autograph, [Paris, July 1946?]; 3 pages in-4, on the back of headed paper Le Populaire central organ of the Socialist Party (S.F.I.O.). Draft, with erasures and corrections, of an article published in Le Populaire of which Blum was the director. On the formation of the new government after the legislative elections of June 2, 1946, and the attitude of the socialist party which wishes a government "based on the three big parties" and on a common program. The S.F.I.O. refused to participate in a government in which there would be no communists or M.R.P. "That is why we have multiplied our efforts at rapprochement and conciliation between the communists and the M.R.P., then between the communists and General de Gaulle. It is a question of knowing "if the indispensable work of national reconstruction or repair can be undertaken, can even be conceived, within the framework of the capitalist system and the liberal economy, or if on the contrary such a work does not require the progressively accentuated recourse to the collective economy". The British answered this question by electing the Labour Party, and the French by electing "the 'big three'. [] In France, therefore, there is a possibility of carrying out extremely bold reforms in an atmosphere of national harmony and appeasement. [] The opportunity is too precious, and at the same time it is too rare, and perhaps too fleeting, for us not to have rushed to we have not been quick to seize it".
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