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...sculptures and 80 prints, the exhibition includes probably the biggest historical show of native and derivative U. S. architecture ever displayed, an important collection of photographs, and an exhibition of stills and reels illustrating the development of the cinema, a U. S. art if there ever was one. Frenchmen, who first discovered esthetic importance in U. S. films, will find the Keystone Cops the most familiar part of the show...
...cheapen the franc, thus giving France a competitive advantage in world markets, while holding the dollar and pound at present levels, the hesitations of the President and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. were brief. Nevertheless, these hesitations were agonizing to Premier Edouard Daladier, for, although most Frenchmen were convinced the franc must be again cheapened, some French fiscal experts believed Franklin Roosevelt would take this occasion to cheapen the dollar too, as he did four years...
...violation of the Tripartite Monetary Accord of the U. S., France and Britain which was signed to keep their three currencies level with each other (TIME, Oct. 5. 1936), Premier Daladier was able to announce devaluation of the franc over the radio and to tell Frenchmen that the pound and dollar would not be devalued to compete with the cut-rate French money he was about to offer...
...this vibrant alibi: "The truth is that our economic life is in a very bad condition; that legitimate profit is tending to disappear; that partial unemployment is increasing in every branch of industry; that our trade balance is impoverishing us; that our production figures are a humiliation for all Frenchmen...
Paris had been expecting for at least three weeks that the Senate would upset this second Blum Cabinet as it upset the first, but Paris was surprised when Mr. Blum's Socialist henchmen brought out a crowd of 10,000, few of whom, correspondents reported, looked like Frenchmen, most seeming to be Eastern European unemployed. This mob whirled toward the Senate, tearing up iron grillwork on the boulevards to use as clubs, but were stoutly withstood by police and steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles, "Down with the Senate! Hang these old men!" cried the mobsters and fell to chanting...