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...forthright Frenchmen in London last week talked His Majesty's Government into what may well prove Britain's most momentous decision since...
This tiresome chore done, the Frenchmen got busy next morning with Britons who pull more weight in the National Government than does the Prime Minister, namely, Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and such bright younger men as Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the Government, and Captain Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal...
...Hitler!" So proud of these agreements were the Frenchmen that M. Laval asked French reporters up to his suite at the Savoy and let them interview him extempore before a microphone, their questions and his replies going out by radio to all France-a novelty unprecedented...
...foreign language the full text of his war-breathing autobiography, My Battle, which is still Germany's bestseller, has sold well over 1,000,000 copies. Available in English is nothing but a bowdlerized version with all the more violent passages purged. When a group of Frenchmen put the full text into French last year, Battler Hitler sued them in the French courts, obtained an injunction. His theory: it is good for Germans to read his hymnal of hate, bad for Germans to have foreigners read...
Even this may be possible, Frenchmen readily agreed. They noted, however, that Saar folk have been shipping their francs in a mad rush to France, The Netherlands, Switzerland. Guesses of how much of the original 1,800,000,000 francs now remains in the Saar ran as low last week as 150,000,000. In the Saar meanwhile Nazis whacked together 350 booths in which Saar folk will be compelled to exchange for German marks any French francs or other foreign money they possess after March...