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Italy for Russia. Making things as difficult as possible for the French Foreign Minister, the reply of Signor Benito Mussolini urged that Russia and Turkey (whom M. Briand had not invited to his party) must be included in any European Union worthy of the name...
...Peace Treaties?a policy anathema to France. In Moscow the Soviet newsorgan Pravda, while appreciative of Italy's attempt to include Russia in the E. U., declared that, in view of the program of revision which Germany and Italy are seeking to force upon unwilling France, "the Briand scheme may be considered exploded...
British Bricks. More suave than any other reply, that of the British Foreign Office began by informing M. Briand that his "proposals" have been "examined with profound interest." Next "fullest sympathy" was expressed for "closer economic cooperation" which was more heavily stressed in the original "United States of Europe" than it is today. Finally, however, the British landed like a ton of paving stones from Trafalgar Square upon the European Union because of its resem- blance to the League of Nations...
...Paris last week the somewhat crushing replies of Germany, Italy and Britain merely caused elastic M. Briand to bounce with animation, like the big and roly-poly diplomatic rubber ball that he is. Professing to be "greatly encouraged" that all the Powers except Britain profess "eagerness" to continue discussion of his scheme, he showed reporters a sheaf of 100% favorable replies from such French satellites as Poland. Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia. Significance. The game of debating the European Union will go on for years, with Aristide Briand as Perpetual Toastmaster. The kudos he will gain as the apostle of Peace...
...formal banquet tendered by the President of France last week Asturias walked in erect and smiling, chatted animatedly with Mm Doumergue and Briand and with Members cf the Corps Diplomatique. Every day thereafter he took moderately long walks in the Paris Bois. He then left for Switzerland to be put through a course of calisthenics at Bern...