Word: edouarde
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Within the week, world attention switched from Franklin Roosevelt to Adolf Hitler to Edouard Daladier. As the world had hoped- and guessed-Chancellor Hitler backed down, the immediate German crisis passed (see p. 12). What was France with the largest army in Western Europe, the largest gold reserve and an international position the envy of every other European nation, now going...
...sign. What commodities would be involved in a swap between the two countries had yet to be developed by experts. Meanwhile the diplomatic sunshine generated by the White House conversations was intermittently dulled by passing clouds following the return last week of James Ramsay MacDonald to London and Edouard Hcrriot to Paris. Mr. MacDonald's carefully guarded report to the House of Commons on his Washington excursion produced vociferous dissatisfaction. He had failed to bring back a hard & fast plan for cutting War debts: that was all that seemed to matter at the moment. A bill was introduced into...
...Zanottis. too. William Somerset Maugham has made a handy translation from the Italian. Actress Anderson, giving an amusing if reminiscently Fontannesque performance with her hair bushed on top of her head, considerably brightens a bright comedy. Actors Ridges and Carroll clearly earn the applause they receive. Best Sellers (by Edouard Bourdet; Lee Shubert, producer) was adapted from the French by Dorothy Cheston Bennett and is concerned with the foibles of literary and publishing folk. Shrewd Mosca is arranging to have one of his authors win the coveted Zola prize when humble Fournier (small Ernest Truex). his forgotten Wartime companion, comes...
...MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain and First Lord of the Treasury, let himself go limp and restful as he and the President viewed and reviewed the economic distress of the world, tried to bring into common focus War Debts, armaments, tariff barriers, trade restrictions, silver, currency. On it Edouard Herriot, France's chunky special envoy who quickly tires of standing, eased his short legs while he discussed his country's need for political security with a U. S. President whose good French made M. Herriot blush for his bad Eng- lish. On it sat large-framed Richard...
Aboard the westward steaming newly decorated Berengaria, Britain's idealistic James Ramsay MacDonald was quite shocked out of the philosophical calm with which he has inured himself to crises. Nearly a thousand miles behind him another Socialist, the chunky Mayor of Lyons. Edouard Herriot, was aboard the He de France. When the radioman brought him the news, one of his party exclaimed: "We might as well turn around and go back home." The newly decorated lie de France sailed...