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...sensation burst when French newsorgans scareheaded a secret alliance between Italy, Germany and Hungary. This alliance was declared "already complete" on the alleged authority of former Premier Edouard Herriot who was said to have laid secret information before the French Chamber Foreign Affairs Committee...
...broken the French Chamber deadlock between the Radical Socialists (moderates) and the Socialists (mild radicals). For the third time since last June a Radical Socialist Cabinet was formed, the job of Premier having been given by President Albert Lebrun to a second-string politician, former War Minister Edouard Daladier (TIME, Feb. 6). And for the third time Socialist Party Leader Leon Blum served notice that he would merely "tolerate" the new Radical Socialist Government,* might wreck it any day as he wrecked its predecessors. Perfunctorily the Socialists joined in giving the Daladier Cabinet a vote of confidence...
Even more ominous was the conduct of Edouard Herriot, again elected Leader of the Radical Socialist Party in caucus last week. Though he supported Premier Daladier in the Chamber, M. Herriot gave the impression that he hopes the new Cabinet will soon fall, hopes to succeed it as Premier of a "National Government" above party. In the Chamber, just before the vote of confidence. Radical Socialist Deputies significantly did not cheer when Leader Herriot lukewarmly appealed "for as large a majority as possible" for Radical Socialist Premier Daladier...
With the ex-President available, in case France's crisis should become so grave as to demand formation of a "National Government" above party, President Lebrun tentatively picked another politician of the moderate Left, told pugnacious Edouard Deladier, son of a baker, once protege of Edouard Herriot and War Minister, under Paul-Boncour, to try to form a Cabinet...
...spin as its string unwinds, then winds up the string on itself and returns to the hand. During the past two years a Yo-Yo craze has swept Europe. Among smart Parisians, Berliners and Londoners are hundreds of exalted Yo-Yo addicts, notably Edward of Wales. Just before Edouard Herriot fell as Premier of France, a Paris weekly pictured his frantic appeals to all sections of the Chamber of Deputies by printing a composite photograph in which the Premier seemed to stand on the tribune, playing with a Yo-Yo which skipped and darted into every quarter of Parliament. Caption...