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...trial lawyer in France is richer or more feared than that spry little Senator with a great mop of grey hair, Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour. In Geneva they used to know him as the perennial No. 2 French Delegate to the League, Aristide Briand being No. 1. Often, while No. 1 slumbered or seemed to slumber in his aisle seat, blocking the egress of other French Delegates, nimble No. 2 would leave and return to his seat by leaping lightly over a desk, thus permitting No. 1 to slumber...
Briand is dead. In Geneva last week Maître Paul-Boncour, now Minister of War, was the French No. 1. With great finesse he divulged to the Disarmament Conference Bureau somewhat more-but not too much-of the new French Disarmament plan (TIME, Nov. 7). Still tentative, the plan will be shaped into its final form partly on the basis of European reactions to the Paul-Boncour speech, partly in an effort to please the next U. S. President. Last week the great French lawyer orated extempore for more than an hour, several times referred unmistakably to Germany without...
...Religion! "In our first or very general circle," began leonine Paul-Boncour, stroking his handsome mane, "it is simply a question-to use almost textually the expressions which on two occasions the American Secretary of State has used-of considering that since by common accord all civilized nations have outlawed war any nation making war now can no longer continue to profit by the legal rights of belligerents. "War being outlawed, it is logical that he who wages war shall be deprived of the economic aid without which adventures of this kind could get nowhere in the modern world...
...French Premier's plan (drafted for the most part by French War Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour) is that France should propose to the great powers Six Conditions. In return for their acceptance France would reduce her conscript "Home Army" from 200,000 to 150,000 men by cutting the term of compulsory military training which young Frenchmen serve from one year to nine months. The Six Conditions, which M. Herriot said he would demand at Geneva...
Next that great French lawyer, Maitre Joseph Paul-Boncour, Minister of War, had his say. "The Hoover plan is eminently clear, direct and simple," he purred. "It is perhaps too simple, Messieurs. . . . My Government still maintains its policy of first obtaining guarantees that the security of France will not be threatened" [i. e. the old French slogan: "Security before Disarmament...