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...roast. Doing his best, Capt. Eden arranged to keep the League Council in session on the Abyssinian question for a week if necessary. Meanwhile Pierre Laval got a call from headquarters: Things were going very badly at home. Crowds were nervous. Everything pointed to the fall of the Flandin Cabinet when parliament reopened early this week. The Foreign Minister had better hurry home. The last train for Paris left at 10:45 p.m. What time was it now? Nearly 9 o'clock. Mon Dieu...
France's plight has reached the climatic stage. Premier Flandin's composite cabinet seems about to topple in the midst of its strenuous efforts to win a grant of dictatorial powers in order to continue a losing fight to maintain the present gold parity of the franc. Although the crisis may be staved off for the moment with the formation of a new cabinet granted the desired authority by the legislature, competent observers agree that "devaluation" must come in a very short time. Depleted reserves in the Bank of France, in addition to an increasing flight of capital...
...moderation, sheer leaning over backward, but the French cabinet saw it as increasing the risk of a war-provoking incident. In Paris, German Air Minister Goring is feared capable of any madness, and Realmleader Hitler's head is rated hot. On orders from French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, himself a wartime aviator, the General Staff order was suspended and "for the present" French frontier guards will write down a description of each German peeping plane which will then be solemnly protested by French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet at Berlin while Nazis laugh up their brown sleeves...
...Wreck. This meant that European diplomacy could set off again on its scrap-of-paper strewn hunt for the pact to end pacts. With such proceedings, Dictator Mussolini has small sympathy, but he and French Premier Flandin preferred to wind up the Stresa Conference handsomely and save everything possible from the wreck...
Since the Stresa Conference decided that Germany has been naughty but is not to be spanked (see p. 19), new French Premier Flandin was in a quandary when the League Council met this week. France could scarcely get back to birch-talk after Stresa, but she could and did lay on the Council table a stinging memorandum back-dated "Paris, April 9." She had hoped Britain would be willing, as Italy was, to send this stinger to the League with the full weight of Stresa's Big Three. Instead, France, with only the moral support of expressed British...