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...unprincipled even for the Gallic" besides a quiet slander is an airy generalisation. Here it is necessary to differenciate: the Front Commun has always been pro-League, while the Front National has consistently been anti-League or at least very cold to it and the Front Commun represents over half the electoral body. Please do not speak of "La Belle France" as being on such good terms with Mr. Laval; there is no such a thing as "realistic France", there are so-called realistic Frenchmen and others that are not. In fact I look forward to a decided success...
Premier Laval's most strking failure has been in his attitude toward the Italo-Ethiopian crisis. His complete lack of sentiment for the honor of the League of Nations and his cynical efforts to let Mussolini have his way in East Africa have been too unprincipled even for Gallic tastes. The so-called Hoare-Laval peace proposals which so nearly sent a British cabinet to its doom also did sufficient harm to Laval's already shaky reputation as an international peacemaker. Realistic France must now admit that the way to insure peace is not to let Mussolini have a free...
...days. It's fun to pursue the intricacies of the barter system; to see a man pay for a meal with a chicken; get two chicks and an egg an change; flip the egg to the waiter for a tip. It's positively delightful to see a Gallic jibe at our own despot: to see all the new hats tossed into the river to improve the bat industry. But it's all so chaotic and aimless. The Russians have a much better chance; they can be consistent and lambante nothing but nasty old capitalism. Hence their effort along the same...
With a carefully selected cast of very Gallic variety artists, the "Continental Varieties of 1936" opened at the Shubert Tuesday for a week's run thus allowing its star, Lucienne Boyer, to take up her Boston activities where she left off last season. Although the show is constructed mainly as a buildup for Miss Boyer's dramatic renditions of striking French ballads, it has its merits of its own, which the reviewer found as diverting as the talents of la belle diseuse. The performers are few in number and diverse in talent, but they all possess a great deal...
Europe's "honest broker," French Premier Pierre Laval, achieved one of the outstanding triumphs of post-War diplomacy last week, and a Gallic jest. After enjoying a repast in one of Paris' best restaurants and paying like the very devil for it, with 10% "for service" on top, M. Laval was approached by the fawning Patron who murmured, "Perhaps M. le Président would pen a precious thought in our Golden Book...