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Reader Spear it was who opened ''Man-of-the-Year" nominations with a wager of a TIME subscription on France's late Louis Barthou, rejected by the editors on the primary ground of death...
...Rome went that swarthy, thick-lipped, beady-eyed onetime butcher boy, His Excellency Pierre Laval, French Foreign Minister. There was nothing democratic about his reception. In Il Duce's opinion the sloppiness of Democracies leads to tragedies like the assassination of French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille (TIME, Oct. 15). It was with Barthou that Mussolini began the secret negotiations which came to a climax last week. The two men never met, dickered through ambassadors. To ensure that nobody should be able to assassinate Pierre Laval on Italian soil last week, his train clicked over tracks guarded every...
Nations with African colonies adjoining Italy's are Britain and France, but friction has been chiefly with France. Because other parts of the Dictator's speech breathed bombast, most commentators dismissed it as all bombast. In Paris clear-headed old Louis Barthou saw things differently. Secret pourparlers began. II Duce told nearly half a million Italians, pack-jamming Cathedral Square in Milan' that he was up to something (TIME, Oct. 15)-"Our relations with France have very greatly improved in recent times," he cried. "We hope soon to reach an accord which will be very fruitful." When...
...Assassination of Alexander and Barthou (TIME...
...project of an Eastern Locarno was cherished by Louis Barthou at the time of his assassination. What could be more in harmony with the romantic ideal of poetic justice than that the unrest growing out of his death should be used to foster this scheme...