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...Paris the French Senate, knowing well the great desire of great Foreign Minister Aristide Briand always to get on amiably with Germany, demanded that just this once he should not turn the other cheek...
...Wednesday, April 8, the first trials for men wishing to compete in the Pasteur medal debate contest will be held in Sever 36 at 8 o'clock. Men intending to try out should prepare a five minute talk on either side of the question "Resolved, That the Briand proposal for a federation of European states is in the interest of national good will...
...France and Germany. The struggle which has never been long dormant since the Treaty of Verdun in 1843 has manifested itself again in general suspicion and some show of hostility since the proposed Austro-German customs union was announced. On the issue of the present crisis will depend the Briand Pan-European Plan, and perhaps indirectly, the peace of Europe...
Last week brought the 25th anniversary of M. Aristide Briand's first appointment as a French Cabinet Minister (in the Sarrien Cabinet of 1906). Destined, in popular estimation, to be soon elected President of France, M. Briand has been once Minister of Interior & Worship, twice Minister of Public Instruction & Worship, thrice Minister of Justice, eleven times Prime Minister and 16 times Foreign Minister, which he is today...
...delighted," telegraphed Mr. Henderson and M. Briand publicly to Signor Grandi. "With you we congratulate ourselves." In England the honest broking at Rome was widely hailed as the prime achievement of the Labor Government since the London Conference-Scot MacDonald and his cabinet having failed to accomplish nearly everything they have attempted since. In France, however, nearly the whole Press took a show-me attitude. French bankers prepared to loan Italy...