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Gigantic, limping Andre Maginot, Minister of War, died last week of typhoid fever. Friends of indomitable old Aristide Briand were forced to admit that he was too sick a man to continue as Foreign Minister. The Cabinet of Pierre Laval tottered...
Rheumy old Brer Briand remained stubborn to the end. His health has been none too good all winter. He was placed on a milk diet last fortnight; last week he suffered two heart attacks in 24 hours. Doctors insisted that for the sake of his health he must give up the Foreign Ministry. Brer Briand glories in the fact that probably no Foreign Minister since Metternich wields the international influence that is his. He had the figure of invalid, politically impotent Raymond Poincare before his eyes. The only promise that could be extracted from him was that he placed...
Ministry, taking over the active duties of Foreign Minister himself, and saving Brer Briand's pride by appointing him Minister of State, free to take up again his usual spellbinding at the League in Geneva as soon as he feels well enough...
President of one act will be M. O. Hudson, Bemis Professor of International Law, who is to impersonate Briand, of France. The other part of the drama will be presided over by F. B. Sayre, professor of law, who has the part of LeRoux, of Spain. Other parts are as follows: Viscount Cecil, of England, Sir Herbert Ames; Senor de Madariaga of Spain, G. G. Wilson, professor of International Law; Sir Eric Drummond, of England, Secretary General, J. J. Johnson '87, professor of Civil Engineering; Sze, of China, K. N. Marshall '21, instructor in government...
November: The complete dominance of Premier Laval over what was once supposed to be someone else's Cabinet was dramatically pointed up when 69-year-old Aristide Briand collapsed in the Chamber Nov. 17 and lay for a few moments crumpled down upon his desk. As chairman of the League Council (both before and after this collapse) Old Brer Briand lost further prestige by failing utterly to restrain the aggression of Japan in Manchuria. Meanwhile short Premier Laval and his tremendously tall, broad-shouldered and aggressive Finance Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin, were fighting through the Chamber their fiscal program...