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...British Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson and First Lord of the British Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. After the very briefest visit, after a most cordial audience with Peace-Announcer Mussolini, the Englishmen were able to take to Paris an agreement so satisfactory that within four hours French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand pronounced it acceptable to France...
...Milan, of which he was then editor. I was manager of the Paris bureau and was covering it for the United Press. At that time Mussolini was practically unknown outside Italy. He scurried around with the rest of us with notebook and pencil, gathering items from Lloyd George, Briand and Lord Riddell. None of us paid him any attention. Certainly none could have foreseen that in a few years he would be one of the world's outstanding figures. He had already started organizing the Fascists, but little was known of the organization abroad...
There were few newsworthy appointments. Potent, shambling Aristide Briand maintains his traditional post as Minister of Foreign Affairs.* In the Ministry of Agriculture-where occurred the Wheat Scandal that felled the Steeg Cabinet-is none other than kinetic André Tardieu himself. Sad-eyed Georges Leygues of the sweeping mustachios lost his post as Minister of Interior to the new Prime Minister. Gigantic, limping André Maginot, Tardieu's sabre-rattling Minister of War, held the same post again last week...
...once M. Aristide Briand, veteran foreign minister, was asked to form a cabinet but deferred in favor of a "young senator" sometimes called his protégé, 56-year-old Pierre Laval. The arrangement was made by telephone, for M. Briand was at Geneva. Returning to Paris he was met at the station by 200 politicians, all anxious to become ministers in the Laval cabinet...
Last week under Prime Minister Steeg five former Prime Ministers consented to serve as ministers: Aristide Briand (Foreign Affairs); Georges Leygues (Interior) ; Louis Barthou (War); Paul Painleve (Air); Camille Chautemps (Education). That the great M. Painleve, thrice Prime Minister and often War Minister, should have consented to take the Ministry of Air seemed most significant, for previously the air portfolio has been a trifle infra dig, the prize of lesser statesmen like M. Laurent Eynac...