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With the faint scratching of gold pens in Paris last week an era closed-the era of Tiger Clemenceau who tried to throw a cordon sanitaire around Russia and starve the Bolsheviks out as one would exterminate lice. Even last week deep French distrust of the Red masters of Moscow caused Foreign Minister Pierre Laval to receive more praise in Paris for his elaborate ringing of the League into the Pact than for the clauses with teeth which made Berlin shiver...
...puppet President throughout has been that great Polish scientist, Professor Ignatz Moscicki. When the old "Walrus" was wheezing with asthma last year, the President invented a device for pepping up the air breathed by the Dictator in his suburban Belvidere Palace. Last week the grim old Marshal threw a cordon of his fanatically loyal troops around the President's palace, shooed into it the Cabinet, Diet and Senate and provided Professor Moscicki with pen & ink. Scratch, scratch the puppet President signed a new Constitution (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933) which sweeps into the dustbin every vestige of Polish democratic institutions...
Worse still, in Paris the Cabinet was split. Supple Foreign Minister Pierre Laval who is a disciple of Peace Apostle Aristide Briand, held that negotiation with Germany can still bring peace. Kinetic Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin insisted that Germany must be ringed around with "an alliance cordon of steel...
Last February Baron Sosnowski gave another party, officially for his latest protegee, a dancer. Berlin's half-world knew what to expect. With glittering eyes they hurried to his apartment. This time a whole cordon of secret police were waiting at the door. Many times had the Baron Sosnowski been suspected of espionage. No charge ever stuck. He blamed his luck on a curious signet ring that he always wore. Several weeks before this last party he lost his ring pulling the Baroness von Berg's puppy from a canal...
...eyes no situation could be simpler: if Adolf Hitler is sincere in his peace protestations, then Der Reichsführer should sign the Eastern Locarno Pact; if Handsome Adolf is insincere, then there is all the more reason why Germany's neighbors should sign, encircling Deutschland with a cordon sanitaire...