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Helpful Joseph. The only bright spot in Anthony Eden's bitter week was the presence of a new French delegate. Hulking, outspoken Foreign Minister Flandin had to stay in France to do a little belated campaigning for the coming parliamentary elections. To take his place, he sent a predecessor in France's Foreign Office, silver-thatched, quick-witted Joseph Paul-Boncour. One of the smartest trial lawyers in France, he is much more sympathetic personally to Anthony Eden than Foreign Minister Flandin is. Puffing nervously at a cigaret, talking with pale fluttery fingers, M. Paul-Boncour explained France...
...League of Nations without Italy. Last week the League delegates from Argentina, Australia, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Great Britain. Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Turkey hitched themselves up to a green baize battle between handsome, toothy Anthony Eden of Great Britain and bald, moose-tall Pierre Etienne Flandin of France...
France wanted no part in this League crackdown. Italy's possible threat to Britain and the headwaters of the Nile was none of her business. Foreign Minister Flandin had only the Rhine on his mind. Urgently he needed Italy's help against the threat of Nazi domination in Europe. Before leaving for Geneva he had given the Sarraut Cabinet France's rebuttal to Adolf Hitler's plan for European peace (TIME, April 13). Insisting on 25 years of status quo, a definite promise from Germany not to fortify the Rhineland and an international police force...
...Eden of Britain, Flandin of France, van Zeeland of Belgium, Baron Aloisi sent an embarrassing message...
...musty hotel rooms in Geneva where the real business of the League of Nations is done. French Foreign Minister Flandin's rebuttal of Germany's peace plan created far less excitement last week than it would have three weeks ago or three weeks hence...