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...Trinity decided to appeal last week to President Roosevelt and the collective conscience of U. S. citizens. Resident in Ethiopia are 125 U. S. citizens, 110 of them missionaries. Judging by them His Majesty felt he was appealing to a highly Christian people who had given the world the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." When Ethiopia was successfully pressed by President Coolidge to adhere to this Pact, Ethiopians hoped they had an ace of some sort in the hole, and they looked to President Roosevelt last week to make Premier Mussolini renounce his blatantly...
...restricted extraordinary power for stated and specific purposes. Even this the Chamber voted with extreme reluctance, so ingrained is French dislike for any executive remotely dictatorial. There was not a single cheer, but thoughtful silence when M. Pierre Laval, the earthy and black-nostriled disciple of Peace-Maker Aristide Briand, arose last week to offer France a Cabinet of his choosing which soon received the Chamber's vote of confidence 324 to 160 with 100 abstentions...
Shrewd Laval. That France, after two years of Adolf Hitler's blustering at the rate, should still want a disciple of M. Briand for Premier, revealed again the peace depths in French hearts. Pierre Laval loomed last week as the right Premier to save the franc and France because he has built himself up in the eyes of all Frenchmen by ceaseless peace efforts as French Foreign Minister. These climaxed in the Stresa Pact and his visit to Moscow (TIME, May 27). M. Laval's manner of achieving power as Premier, for the third time, all French politicians...
Worse still, in Paris the Cabinet was split. Supple Foreign Minister Pierre Laval who is a disciple of Peace Apostle Aristide Briand, held that negotiation with Germany can still bring peace. Kinetic Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin insisted that Germany must be ringed around with "an alliance cordon of steel...
...Russian, a German or an Italian the Premier's moving appeal to Parliament sounded like a swan song of democracy, an indirect confession that Liberty, Equality and Fraternity can no longer stand up and take it. Paris last week was .repeating the bitter jibe "It seems that Briand was a poet and Poincare was right." Senator Henry de Jouvenel, onetime French Ambassador to Rome and a close student of II Duce, told his august colleagues amid a storm of applause: "I don't know where we stand with Great Britain, but I have confidence in Premier Mussolini...