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...Papa Doumergue has gone the nation's gratitude for maintaining the Republic against internal discord, to Louis Barthou has gone wide-eyed admiration for spectacularly advancing in a few brief months, the diplomatic position of France. Early this week, as he welcomed to France a Balkan King with whom he was about to make a crucial deal, an assassin shooting at the King brought Death...
...strengthening its army, as Premier before the War, Barthou was called "the Savior of France." After the War he dropped out of sight. Last winter, to its surprise, France found that it had obtained for its Cabinet of National Union not merely a name of greatest prestige, but its most active Foreign Minister in years...
Toward restoring the delicate European balance of power upset by Hitler's ascendancy, M. Barthou's old hand worked surely, swiftly. Most spectacularly, he made friends with Soviet Russia, drew Russia into the League. He had also helped Stanley Baldwin to decide that Britain's frontier must be on the Rhine. In a brilliant swing around Europe he had kept the wavering Little Entente in France's pocket. His trip up the Danube was a triumphant progress ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced...
...problem of Austria, biggest and most vital in all Europe, was deftly sidetracked. Italy had a plan which on inspection would have given her practically the same control over Austria that she now has over Albania. Vociferously France's Louis Barthou roared protests. Britain refused to sign anything that might mean military intervention. The best that could be wangled was a joint statement by France, Britain, and Italy reaffirming their intention of preserving Austrian independence...
From the German viewpoint Louis Barthou is thus the very old Devil. Rightly Adolf Hitler was in a white fury last week at the seeming entente between France and Russia. It was this which caused Dictator Hitler to egg on Dictator Pilsudski and Colonel Beck. In Berlin the Realmleader was reported to have stormed to an official of the Wilhelmstrasse last week, "If France and Russia have an alliance, then let this alliance come out into the open!" But such is not the method of the Old Diplomacy. Without an alliance France drew England into the Great...