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...Premier's vision of rich works, pleased by his hard money stand, the Chamber gave M. Daladier a smash vote of confidence 413 to 163, sent him to London stronger than at any time since his Government was formed. Since Premiers cannot camp indefinitely at Conferences, Frenchmen considered that the active leader of their Delegation will be knife-faced, keen-eyed, astute Georges Bonnet, Minister of Finance. To friends he said that the World Conference "with good luck" should achieve its objectives by early September. Continentals last week credited persistent rumors that President Roosevelt does not want any treaties...
...threatening turn. Embattled taxpayers called at the homes of their representatives. One party of them broke into the parlor of Paul Maurice Jacquier, Reporter General of the Budget, and sat there until ejected by police. France has not been a Republic so long. There are plenty of Frenchmen who remember the bloody Commune of 1871, the conspiracy of General Boulanger. One who remembers both these things is elderly Senator Marcel Regnier. In the Agence Economique last week he wrote...
...spirit and mentality of the last century, which believed one could probably make Germans out of Poles and Frenchmen, is exactly and in the same measure as foreign to us as we passionately oppose every contrary attempt upon...
...come of the Roosevelt-Herriot-MacDonald conversations in Washington, U. S. isolation as a world power is defi- nitely over. What this might mean for France they could not yet tell, but threats of further U. S. inflation had every French statesman, every businessman worried. Frenchmen, badly burned by their own inflation of 1924-25. would throw out by nightfall any government that suggested a parallel move. In effect the British loan married the paper pound to the gold franc, made them an effective team to maneuver against any sudden tricks on the part of the dollar. It brought France...
...thought of Hitler makes Frenchmen nervous as witches. Last week many a Parisian caught sight of an automobile whizzing by with what looked like the Nazi swastika flag. When they spotted a second and a third, they concluded that German Nazis were swarming into Paris. They rushed to telephones and babbled their information to the police. Then they went out into the street ready to tear apart the next Nazi automobile they saw. Meanwhile Paris police began to look for the mysterious Nazi cars...