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...Bucharest the Rumanian Chamber made him an honorary subject of King Carol II and gave him the first Rumanian passport valid for the Soviet Union, which he had just induced His Majesty to recognize (TIME, July 9). On a triumphal progress up the Danube to Jugoslavia, Oldster Barthou was welcomed by athletic young subjects of King Alexander who swam out to greet him with French flags clenched in their teeth...
When this swing around Europe was over Louis Barthou had the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia) pretty completely in his pocket, how completely appeared last week when Czechoslovak League Council President Benes gladly ran the Frenchman's errands to Litvinoff...
...Gascon grandfather's most significant journey was to London (TIME, July 16). There M. Barthou did more than patch up a quarrel which he had had earlier in the year at Geneva with Sir John Simon. He convinced Leader of the British Conservative (majority) Party Stanley Baldwin that the Nazi Reich is a real menace to the peace of Europe. It was after M. Barthou's visit that M. Baldwin startled the world by declaring for His Majesty's Government that the British frontier is now on the Rhine...
...Barthou effort to encircle Germany was originally rebuffed by Britain, but approved when he modified it into the form of an Eastern Locarno Pact that was to be signed by Russia, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Baltic States, all mutually pledging military aid to keep the present frontiers of Germany fixed (TIME, July...
...Diplomatist's heart M. Barthou has been sure that Germany would refuse to sign. Last week this refusal was announced by German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath-thus proving one of M. Barthou's main points, that Germany will not agree to abide by her present frontiers. He will now return to his original program of an Eastern Pact signed by Germany's neighbors, plus Russia and, if possible, Italy. In such a chain of alliance, not in Germany's pledge on parchment however fine, Louis Barthou would prefer to put his trust. "The solemn...