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...other purpose than to deal with China & Japan. It was Spain's turn to preside, but there was Heaven to pay in Spain (see p. 19). Spanish Foreign Minister Alejandro Lerroux could not leave the boiling religious crisis at Madrid to go to Geneva. Thus it became M. Aristide Briand's turn to chairman the Council...
...Briand, famed "Master Parliamentarian of Europe," knew well enough that what Mr. Stimson had called "all the pressure and authority" of the League is not enough to coerce a Great Power like Japan. Also, the Japanese Cabinet was already showing fury at Mr. Stimson's use of the noun "pressure" and the verb "regulate." There was only one smart thing for M. Briand to do: stall. But how? As the Frenchman wracked his agile brain in Geneva, Mr. Stimson provided the thing needed...
...United States and the other signatories of the Kellog-Briand Pact must bring pressure to bear on China and Japan immediately, or else the Kellog Pact will be disgraced and rendered worthless by the fighting that is going on between the two countries, both of which are signatories of the pact," declared Professor L. C. Porter of the Chinese Department, in an interview yesterday." The present activities in Manchuria are the first instances of two countries fighting that signed the pact...
...goodwill visit of Premier Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to Berlin-first official German visit of any French statesmen since French Foreign Minister William Henry Waddington * led a French delegation to the Congress of Berlin in 1878-produced but one concrete result last week: It proved that the Government of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning is powerful enough to provide an enthusiastic welcome for anybody. On the Frenchmen's arrival nobody was allowed near Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives...
...left-wing Socialists under Marcel Cachin. White-tied Laval disliked Communism and was disgusted at the growing conservatism of the other old-line Socialists. He broke away from the party altogether and has remained a complete independent. What political allegiance he owes is to that wily old Pacifist Aristide Briand. Before his Premiership, he flashed twice in the news. As Minister of Labor in the second Tardieu Government he put through the Social Insurance Act, France's employer's liability law. It was Pierre Laval, too, who authorized the use of typewriters in France's antiquated Department of Justice...