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...That France would make this move was announced to the Chamber in solemn terms last week by the Jewish Premier's obsequious Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. Said he: "We shall ask for the convocation of the Commission of Study for a European Union that was created by Aristide Briand. This commission includes all European States, whether members of the League or not. Germany could therefore participate...
Geneva observers, although mildly amazed, stirred with hope that from so paradoxical a situation something might come at last out of the late great Nobel Peaceman Aristide Briand's greatest vision: The United States of Europe (TIME, Sept...
...British Bohemian, George Slocombe. Twice, he claims in The Tumult & the Shouting, he personally contrived to bring about historic meetings between hostile statesmen: 1) at Geneva in 1927, between Russia's Litvinoff and Britain's Austen Chamberlain; 2) at The Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France's present Socialist Premier Leon Blum, he was still a literary boulevardier, fond of the applause of women and a crony of the late great writer Marcel Proust. Implicit in The Tumult & the Shouting is Slocombe...
...best biographical motion pictures of 1935, in which Paul Muni plays the leading figure of a great Frenchman, is Warner Brothers' (1 The Story of Louis Pasteur, 2 Briand, the Peacemaker, 3 The Tiger of France, 4 Radium's Discovery, 5 The Magnificent Marshal Foch...
...everywhere but by setting up under Geneva auspices brand new groupings of the powers with specific local machinery to enforce peace. "Suppose, for instance," declared the First Lord, "that the continental nations of Europe could form a United States of Europe, such as that conceived by the late Aristide Briand of France a decade ago, our troubles would be mitigated! Russia would be a unit. Similarly, the United States and its American friends would be a third unit...