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...League or at least very cold to it and the Front Commun represents over half the electoral body. Please do not speak of "La Belle France" as being on such good terms with Mr. Laval; there is no such a thing as "realistic France", there are so-called realistic Frenchmen and others that are not. In fact I look forward to a decided success in the March elections for the pro-League and pacifist parties...
...term "further on the conservative side" as used in the Crimson was mere editorial comparison. As for "Gallic tastes", Laval's disregard for the League of Nations has been notorious, and as long as he remained Premier his conduct must be taken as representative of a majority of Frenchmen. Whether or not it would have been easy to dissolve the "league" is a debateable question; the simple fact is, Premier Laval...
...particular Stavisky's widow, handsome onetime Chanel Model Arlette Simon, protested during the trial that in 1926 he swore to her that he would "go straight." She vowed that she never doubted he had gone straight until after his death and the disclosure that he had swindled Frenchmen out of some...
Just how closely connected Laval is with the "interests" Frenchmen can make only the most hazardous guesses, but it is clear that during the past few years his sympathies have swerved far closer the right than they had been when the swarthy Anvergnat made his entrance into French polities. The ill-disguised reluctance with which he took steps to dissolve or even curb the "leagues," meaning chiefly that Fascist in Republican's clothing, the Criox de Feu, was not received with patience or good will by the Premier's party. In the eyes of political observers France has recently been...
...Without a scrap of proof, they rumored that the majority of 20 won by the Laval Cabinet after the Premier's defense of his efforts to make peace at Ethiopia's expense would have been a majority of only eight had the votes been honestly counted. Most Frenchmen promptly asked each other why, if there was crockery among the tellers, there was not enough crockery to have tipped the scale in so close a vote...