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...Benito Mussolini's Four-Power Pact, when U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis pledged a mild degree of U. S. co-operation in enforcing peace (TIME, May 29). Last week the bus jolted to an abrupt halt. Brakes were applied by French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour before even his own Prime Minister realized...
From Geneva, where Foreign Minister Paul-Boncour had been studying the agreement carefully there came a sudden telegram. Premier Daladier instantly subsided. Delegate Paul-Boncour's first job was to rush to France's excited allies. Rumania, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland, and assure them that nothing had been signed, that there was no immediate threat to all the land acquired by them through the Versailles Treaty...
...withdrawing objections to Ramsay MacDonald's Disarmament Plan (TIME, March 27). One of its chief points-elimination and destruction of present stocks of heavy siege guns, large bombing planes and tanks weighing more than 16 tons-was in a fair way toward adoption when up stepped Joseph Paul-Boncour...
Geneva. Meanwhile things were popping in other capitals. U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis rushed to Geneva followed by British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. In Paris there was a special Cabinet meeting out of which came long-haired Joseph Paul-Boncour, French Foreign Minister, to speed to Geneva too. Not only the Mussolini Peace Pact but the MacDonald Disarmament Plan (TIME, March 27)* was walking again. Nazi Delegate Nadolny (see p. 12), who nearly wrecked the conference fortnight ago, reappeared in Geneva to say that Germany would now accept the MacDonald Plan without insisting on immediate rearmament...
...Paul-Boncour was simply over interpreting an old working agreement between A. P. and the Government-controlled Havas agency...