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...France the current theory of Italo-French relations is that Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi is friendly to French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, is doing his best to keep the "wild man" fairly quiet. Last week's speech by Signore Mussolini was therefore almost ignored by the semi-official Paris Temps. But L'Avenir (organ of the Center) burst out: "The French Government should declare once and for all to the blackshirts and their German friends that we intend to revise nothing whatever! We will no more demolish the Versailles peace treaty to please Mussolini than to satisfy that crazy...
Declaring that "nearly half the globe is in a state of great unrest or revolution," the President praised the Kellogg-Briand and London naval treaties, promised "a preparedness for defense that is impregnable yet that contains no threat of aggression." Of the "practical preservation of peace," he said...
...ceaseless agitator for peace has been Salmon Oliver Levinson, 64, smart Chicago corporation lawyer. To him goes much unofficial credit for the idea of making war illegal, for the Kellogg-Briand Treaty or Pact of Paris. And to him went the $50,000 Bok Peace Prize for his plan of adjusting War reparations and debts. The Manchester Guardian has proposed him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Last week Peace-Maker Levinson made another peace proposal: limit short-selling...
...Poor Europe! Stupid Europe!", wrote onetime French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot in L'Ere Nouvelle last week. Proposing an economic federation of European states to resist Soviet "dumping" and U. S. "imperialism," he flayed his successful French political rival M. Briand for proposing a mere piddling political "United States of Europe" (TIME. Sept. 22 et ante). He concluded: "Poor Europe which is short sighted and refuses to unite! Stupid Europe which does not hear the crackings of its obsolete construction...
...Washington meticulous Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson, successor to Mr. Kellogg as Secretary of State, took care lest M. Briand be literally believed, lest any U. S. citizen think that President Hoover or the Administration had "sent" Mr. Kellogg tripping into the wildwood of European entanglements...