René Blum (politician)
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René Blum was a Luxembourg
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ian politician, diplomat, and jurist. He sat in the Chamber of Deputies
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 from 1918 until 1937, when he became a government minister
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. He was briefly the President of the Chamber, from 1925 until 1926.

In government, Blum held the offices of Minister for Justice and Minister for Transport, before the outbreak of the Second World War
World War II
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 cut these tenures short. After the war, Blum served as the Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1944–55).
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