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...having a Frenchman's own time in trying to keep. Since coming into office in June he has been sufficiently perplexed by France's economic and political crisis, a situation trying enough to sink many a lesser head of state as it had already sunk Doumergue and Flandin; but from this sizzling frying-pan he has been compelled to leap into a devil's fire oi a new kind of League politics. Attempting tc give Italy her promised free hand in Ethiopia, he has also acted as an Honest Broker in attempting to manacle that hand...
...Bank of France, fusty "abnormally honest" M. Clement Moret, gave way to that slightly looser wad, sandy-mustached M. Jean Tannery, amid uneasy rumors of "inflation" (TIME, Jan. 14). Since then France has changed cabinets and new Premier Pierre Laval is not tinged as was old Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin with any suspicion of wanting to perpetrate a New Deal âl'americaino. With Parliament adjourned and the new Cabinet embarked on a drastic program of balancing the budget and reducing the cost of life's necessities by decree laws, Governor Tannery felt so good last week that he indulged...
...Because the Flandin Cabinet fell while he was at sea and a rival politician on the spot in Paris copped his job of Minister of Merchant Marine in the new Laval Cabinet. Friends on the Normandie warned M. Bertrand that this would happen, urged him to call up M. Laval by radio telephone. ''That is not done!" exploded French M. Bertrand. "I cannot remind the President of the Council that I exist, by telephone...
Swarthy M. Laval with his white string tie* had seemed the logical choice when his tall chief, Pierre Etienne Flandin, was overthrown after asking the restive Chamber for "full powers" in a speech decidedly too long and probably too emotional (TIME, June 10). Summoned by President Lebrun, M. Laval refused to try to form a Cabinet, bided his time. He figured cannily that the Chamber and would-be Premiers who asked for "full powers" would wear each other out. This Laval guess was correct. In a furious three-day wrangle the Deputies rejected every likely statesman who attempted to dominate...
Ministers of State: Former Premiers Flandin of the moderate Right and Herriot of the moderate Left; M. Louis Marin of the Right...