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...tide the Conference over this ugly crisis, Premier Edouard Herriot made one of those speeches which Frenchmen make so well. Keynote: "President Hoover's declaration was founded upon a noble idea." Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb...
Quashing their quarrels and quibbles, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and Premier Edouard Herriot stood shoulder to shoulder in Lausanne last week, entreating Germany to accept an ingenious formula...
...Elaborately friendly, Premier Edouard Herriot of France (who speaks German) and Chancellor Franz von Papen of Germany (who speaks French?see p. 16) strolled about arm in arm, taking each other's measure...
...bony fingers pass the affairs of a Great Power. In Switzerland last week he seemed to be finding himself, seemed to be learning, had he not learned before, how to tackle foreign affairs from the Teutonic point of view. Chatting one day about the Young Plan with Premier Edouard Herriot of France, he quietly observed : "None of the promises have come true." This said, shrewd Statesman von Papen did not find it hard to warn the French Premier that Germany was in no condition or mood to pay further Reparations...
...Lausanne, high above placid Lac Leman, but in suburban Ouchy at the water's brim, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Beau-Rivage. Around an oblong table the delegates of 14 nations* faced each other with a great calm. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Premier Edouard Herriot, Chancellor Franz von Papen and the rest knew that their action must be to postpone action, adopt a temporary European moratorium and lay plans for drawing the U. S. into general cancellation of Reparations & Debts-after the U. S. elections next November...