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A La Porte, les Deputes!..
Henri de Kerillis, a French WWI hero and right-wing/nationalist politician, published this short screed on the failure of the four left-wing/radical/socialist governments that came and went in France over 18 months, beginning in June 1932. (That would be the failed governments of Herriot, Boncour, Daladier, and Sarrault.) de Kerillis states that there has been no government in France over the last 18 months and doesn't see that there will be any change to that, and given that (as he says) there is a possibility of financial collapse and the open preparations for war by Hitler, that the time was ripe for a different political direction. When the country votes left, he says, you can expect a disaster.
Kerillis was an ardent and vocal anti-Fascist, opposed to the Munich Agreement and always opposed to Hitler. He was forced to leave France in 1940, and was sentenced to death in abstentia by the Vichy government, which I take is a mark of high honor.
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