Word: flandin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today France has a tall, keen, young Premier who goes to Scotland every season to shoot grouse. This trivial fact was of vast, imponderable weight last week. It enabled tall Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin to rank as a gentleman and a sportsman in the eyes of the tall Britons with whom he had come to negotiate. They got on famously-so well, indeed, that the British Cabinet voluntarily sacrificed their sacrosanct week end, worked Saturday and Sunday to oblige Premier Flandin and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. Normally in London any statesman rash enough to suggest that the Government forego...
...approach until Germany has responded to the advances of England and France. If she persists in adopting her present isolationist attitude, she will drive her former opponents to far closer ties than have yet been cemented. But if she is able to recognize that Messrs. Eden, Simon, Laval and Flandin are doing all in their power to prevent another armageddon, and are sincere in their desire to right some of the wrongs inflicted on her by the Versailles Treaty, the new diplomacy will be firmly entrenched...
High Policy. The three issues to be raised in London by Premier Flandin break down factually thus...
...Britain and France may be compared to three storekeepers, two of whom are selling at cut rates. Neither President Roosevelt nor Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of His Majesty's Exchequer has ever opposed the ending of cut-rate monetary competition, ultimately. The only trouble is that Premier Flandin seeks dollar-pound-franc stabilization now. He is the storekeeper who has not cut prices. While the other two deplore the unquestionably bad effects of present world money chaos, each hopes to gain brief advantage by prolonging it just a bit more. Last week only highest powered optimists hoped that a money...
...future is in supplying foreign countries with products of high quality, even though the price must also be high. . . . We do not desire to become, nor could we become, a nation of mass production and consequent cheap labor. That would be a step, or rather many steps backward!" M. Flandin feels that the genius of the French is as the World's elite workers, creators of the mode...