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...blustering at the rate, should still want a disciple of M. Briand for Premier, revealed again the peace depths in French hearts. Pierre Laval loomed last week as the right Premier to save the franc and France because he has built himself up in the eyes of all Frenchmen by ceaseless peace efforts as French Foreign Minister. These climaxed in the Stresa Pact and his visit to Moscow (TIME, May 27). M. Laval's manner of achieving power as Premier, for the third time, all French politicians agreed last week, was characteristically peasant-shrewd...
...office hours Fernand Bouisson indulged in the three hobbies that all Frenchmen admire: he eats, with skill and discrimination; he collects pictures and rare editions; he tells funny stories in dialect. Until the riots of February 1934 he was a faithful if unimpressive member of the Socialist Party. Then he resigned m disgust, has since carefully avoided aligning himself with any political party...
...several years France has operated an airmail service to South America. In Argentina and Southern Brazil there are far more Italians than Frenchmen. With Italian assistance this service will be speeded up and will eventually include passenger planes...
...Metz was only 20 miles away and Nancy caught it both coming and going, the bombers dropping a part of their load on the way out and dumping the remainder on their way back. They did considerable property damage and killed a few civilians, but, aside from keeping the Frenchmen running from bed to dugout every time the siren sounded, their effects were negligible...
...Frenchmen are still submitting to the "peeping" of German planes coasting along their secretly built frontier defenses (TIME, May 6), but six Italian pursuit planes rocketed up last week when a German ship tried to peep at Benito Mussolini's so-called "Air Gibraltar," the great military airport on Italy's northern frontier near Sesto Calende...