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...House of Commons gallery while Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made Sir Samuel Hoare a scapegoat (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week this trans-Channel junket seemed likely to blast many of M. Reynaud's political ambitions. As he went down under the Tiger's Cub, millions of Frenchmen pondered with care the exposition of the Ethiopian Question given by André Tardieu. Excerpt...
...Doom of Laval' Because of the difference between Britons and Frenchmen, the Laval Cabinet was not able to defend itself by the methods which the Baldwin Cabinet successfully employed. Both Cabinets had been pledged, as a whole and up to the hilt, to secure immediate peace between Italy and Ethiopia by means of negotiations taking their point of departure from The Deal of Hoare & Laval. In the House of Commons fortnight ago the Prime Minister was never in danger because his Conservative Party held an absolute majority and not even Stanley Baldwin's worst enemies ever predicted that...
Because they are convinced that the Soviet Government, the Munitions Trust and other mysterious agglomerations pretty much dictate what is printed in Paris' larger papers, many Frenchmen buy daily for a copper or two thrilling Rightist sheetlets which hurl political dirt, libel and "inside dope" with such abandon that their passionate editors give at least the impression of sincerity. Yelped one such editor last week: "Shoot down like dogs the 160 Senators who want to suppress the Fascist Leagues!" Screamed another: "I take the responsibility for killing Leon Blum [Socialist Party Leader...
...most important one. They were not imposed by force but issued under blanket authority voluntarily granted by the Chamber. A dictator and yet not a dictator, a fascist and yet not a fascist, a onetime socialist who was perhaps never really a socialist, Pierre Laval makes upon millions of Frenchmen the impression of a leader of prudence and common sense. After Deputy Guernut's wildly applauded attack, the Premier strolled out of the Chamber with a composure infuriating to personal enemies who know it is almost impossible to empty his sleeve of tricks...
Before they could say "One No Trump," the Frenchmen were shot up to a large chamber in Essex House which was arranged as if for bearbaiting. There, in two pits with 250 kibitzers mounted in circles behind them, the Frenchmen were told that they would begin play this week for THE CONTRACT BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. In an adjoining room, 800 more spectators will observe the play on an electric board. "What is this," asked Baron Robert de Nexon, team captain, "a circus?" The French nobleman who manages Pierre Wertheimer's famed racing stud is not unsophisticated...