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...What steps the French and U. S. Governments will take to keep francs and dollars unshakably on the gold standard. (Frenchmen are stuffing socks with all kinds of gold coins which they bought in bags on the floor of the Paris Bourse last week. This helped to force the Federal Reserve Bank of New York rediscount rate up to 3½% in an effort to check European withdrawals & hoarding of U. S. gold...
...variety to the scene by their physical and vocal contrast. The personable Miss Lytell was an excellent foil for the thoroughly different beauty of Gloria Holden. Roman Bohnen played the role of Hippolitus Lomi with remarkable conservatism, considering the opportunities offered for burlesque by the character of fortune-hunting Frenchmen. Even Eddie Wragge as the youthful Wilbur, was effective, luckily free from most of the usual failings of children on the stage...
...prepared to sail was Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Hymans. He was said to be urging M. Laval to listen sympathetically when Mr. Hoover asks France to join in a worldwide economy program of lessened armaments. This, from the French point of view, is a "sacrifice of security" which few Frenchmen are prepared to make. But Belgium, less militaristic than France, is anxious to economize on cannon...
...since French Foreign Minister William Henry Waddington * led a French delegation to the Congress of Berlin in 1878-produced but one concrete result last week: It proved that the Government of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning is powerful enough to provide an enthusiastic welcome for anybody. On the Frenchmen's arrival nobody was allowed near Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives lustily cheered Herren Laval & Briand. Statesmen Laval, Brüning, Briand and Curtius formally organized their "Franco-German Economic Committee...
Berlin Preparations. German police had their hands full preparing for the fateful visit this week. There were thousands of peaceable Germans eagerly awaiting their coming. There were other thousands chafing under the thought of France's mastery of Europe, ready to try something desperate. The Frenchmen would only be in the capital two days. Every move, every minute was planned for. Policemen spent long hours deciding whether it would be safer for the visitors to disembark from the Friedrichstrasse station nearest to the French Embassy, but surrounded by tall roofs that offered good shelter to snipers, or whether they should...