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Show Blum Faces Next Battle in Senate PARIS, June 16 flJ.R Premier Leon Blum, safely past the cham- ber of deputies with his project for emergency power to safeguard the national finances, faces a hostile hos-tile senate Friday for another fight for his political life. The Chamber passed the project by a vote of 346 to 247 this morning, morn-ing, at the end of a turbulent night session, and thus voted the necessary confidence in the government. gov-ernment. Blum saved his cabinet in the chamber only because the communists, com-munists, rescinding a previous vote, decided to support him with their 70 votes. |