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...eating Right parties is constant, but in Daladiers own party a split is brewing with followers of Edouard Herriot, anxious to pay France's defaulted debt to the U. S. at once. Daladier and disciples are for nonpayment. As spokesman for the Right, Former Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin popped up in the Chamber of Deputies last week and asked a number of questions that the world at large dearly wished to hear answered...
Daladier. To keep his Government Premier Daladier had soon to answer the questions of M. Flandin, to tackle the problems they aroused. French reporters have one adjective for him, solide. Stocky, blue-eyed, pugnacious, he is no orator like Herriot or the late great Briand. He is acquiring Calvin Coolidge's mid-term reputation for quiet stability...
French Plan, To Mr. MacDonald's extreme discomfiture France's Flandin leaned his large elbows on the Cabinet table, rested his massive jowls upon his fists and left the defense of France's plan for saving Danubia largely to the British. The plan: 1) loans to Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Hungary and Austria totaling $40.000,000 or about 65¢ to each Danubian man, woman and child; 2) exclusion of Bulgaria (Germany's ally 1914-18) from this rescue party, although Bulgaria is on the Danube and in dire straits; 3) lowering inter-Danubian tariffs by 10% to 20% all round...
...Very well, Gentlemen," said big Flandin, "if you think 10% is not enough. France consents to a 50% tariff...
Said big Flandin, "Some powers ? and I am not referring to Great Britain ? do not seem to appreciate how serious the Danubian situation really is. ... Something must be done immediately to prevent a general collapse in that area...