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Worst of all, a good many Frenchmen who had vaguely heard of "The Man in the White Tie" understood that during the War he was a slacker and afterwards a Communist. In 1914, being already Mayor of the proletarian Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his old constituents as a Socialist. He did not enlist in the Army. When drafted he served briefly at the front as a common poilu. His Socialist views caused him to orate directly after the War against the Treaty of Versailles. In 1919 he lost his seat...
President Hoover is well known to dislike almost all Frenchmen. He and Premier Laval had high words which they called "free and frank." Smoking U. S. cigarets at the furious rate of 80 per day, the didactic Frenchman in striped trousers, black jacket, white tie and suede-topped buttoned shoes wagged his short forefinger at the President in high-laced shoes and conservative business suit, making hotly such points as that France will not stand for having another Moratorium thrust forward from the U. S. "suddenly and brutally."? Equally blunt was Mr. Hoover, according to some reports, in challenging...
...adoption of a $140,000,000 program of public works to relieve French unemployment, two-thirds of this sum to be furnished by the Treasury and one-third by local bodies. According to Laval Cabinet official estimates there are unemployed some 500,000 Frenchmen, compared to some 7,200,000 U. S. citizens...
...Disarmament Conference in Geneva next February. The trouble with last week's well meaning "conference"' lay not among the 1,043 "delegates," 100% pacifists all, but in the fact that anyone willing to buy a ticket could attend, and in the further fact that several thousand angry Frenchmen came...
Less than a year ago even Frenchmen were asking, "Who is this Laval?" Last week the Premier pushed completely out of the Chamber picture Old Brer Briand, his veteran Foreign Minister whose support was necessary to prop up the young Laval Cabinet last spring. In effect, M.Laval reversed (perhaps rashly) the soft-spoken policy toward Germany of his own Foreign Office. When M. Briand last addressed the Chamber applause rose from the Left and Left Centre. When M. Laval spoke last week, the Centre and Right vociferously cheered his words: "We will accept no new Reparations arrangement except...