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With King Albert presiding, Belgium's Cabinet lately approved a two-year plan of national retrenchment. What they think of this plan sturdy Belgians showed last week by oversubscribing a one-billion-franc internal loan offered by the Government to the public at 5%. Capitalists to the core, thousands of Belgian petite bourgeoisie organized tiny pools, each pool buying one bond...
...French unemployment, still the smallest of any great power except Russia, mounted from day to day. Thirty-two thousand were added to the rolls last week, giving a registered total of 246,709. Deputies discussed a 200,000,000-franc state lottery for their relief...
...Woman. Demonstrating that sex can raise its ugly head "down under" as well as any other place on the Globe, Three Men and a Woman is concerned with the doings in a lighthouse on Cape Forlorn, New Zealand. Why the God-fearing keeper (William Desmond) married his lecherous wife (Franc Hale) is something Australian Playwright Frank Harvey does not explain. When her husband goes to the mainland, she betrays him with his assistant (old Melodramatist Walker Whiteside). When an absconder turns up with the loot of an investment company to which her husband's savings are entrusted, she promptly...
...policemen. Patrolling up and down the ranks, a loudspeaker on the roof of a car gave the orders: "Attention! Fall in line, men; eight abreast and ready to move. Act like gentlemen!" Waving soiled little U. S. flags, led by Father Cox and one E. R. Franc of Pittsburgh dressed as "Uncle Sam," the quiet procession moved off behind their band...
Unfortunately Premier Briand had no head for finance. The collapse of the franc drove him back to his favorite post of Foreign Minister. In came great Premier Raymond Poincaré to save the franc, and incidentally to blight the careers of several Briand satellites. Ousted Pierre Laval contrived to get himself elected a Senator from the Department of the Seine (which he has since represented). He dropped back for several years into obscurity as a quiet Independent. Still close to Old Brer Briand, he also made himself close to Young André Tardieu...