This man's eloquent defense to charges of causing a war led the Riom Trial to be suspended indefinitely.
This man's eloquent defense to charges of causing a war led the Riom Trial to be suspended indefinitely. Five years earlier, one of his ministries fell when the Senate refused to grant him emergency economic powers. During his twilight years, this man spent a month leading caretaker government during the election that led to Vincent Auriol becoming president. His first government signed the Matignon agreement, which implemented paid vacations and the forty-hour week. He later returned to power after an interregnum under Camille Chautemps. He faced continued opposition from right-wingers, who adopted the slogan "better Hitler than" this man. FTP, name this leader of the Popular Front government which came to power in 1936, who was the first Socialist and the first Jew to be prime minister of France.
This man's eloquent defense to charges of causing a war led the Riom Trial to be suspended indefinitely.
Leon {Blum}