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Meanwhile M. Flandin had bustled to Paris for the weekend. The Chamber of Deputies was about to adjourn for French general elections on April 26 and May 3. Stuffy Premier Albert Sarraut looked to his Foreign Minister to make a speech Frenchmen would like to hear. Applause rang out when M. Flandin told the Chamber that Italy was supporting France with the "frankest friendship" in London...
Having thus conjured up the horrid vision of uncounted millions of Bolshevik Frenchmen and Bolshevik Russians leagued suddenly against the German Nazis, Realmleader Hitler with pistol-shot rapidity spat out what he was doing about all this. At that very moment last week German troops on his orders were dashing into the Demilitarized Rhineland. He ignored the illegality of this deed under the Treaty of Versailles and maintained that the Franco-Soviet Treaty had voided the Locarno Pact, hitherto the main bulwark of peace in Western Europe...
...great many Frenchmen the person and program of Léon Blum are so "abominable" that they can think of no other in France equally abominable. Nevertheless the "popular Front" of the Radical Socialists, the Socialists and the Communists last week finally steamrollered through the Chamber of Deputies the Franco-Soviet Pact by a triumphant majority of 353-to-164. Among his bandages Jew Léon Blum chuckled as this harsh stroke immediately moved Nazi Adolf Hitler to make the most fawning and friendly gestures he has ever made toward France...
...more effective measures to discredit him followed. France's so-called grande presse d'information, the big newsorgans controlled by substantial interests, undertook to slay him with ridicule and such "information" as that last year on Bastille Day he posted stickers in Paris lavatories inviting all Frenchmen of courage to meet him on a designated street corner the following day for the purpose of attacking the Bank of France...
...major factor in their prompt decision to call the Strike off. Last week Sir John Simon betook himself to a microphone connected with a Continental hook-up and made a speech in French. "In years gone by the Kings of England exercised great personal power," Sir John told anxious Frenchmen. "One of our writers has aptly remarked that the King of England in his relations with his Ministers has kept three 'rights'-the right to be informed, the right to advise and the right to warn. . . . Nowadays the King always acts on the advice of his Ministers...