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Back to Paris to the rescue of his shaky cabinet hastened "Gastounet," carrying with him all the sympathy and affection of the French people. Once again he used that affection to club politicians out of purely partisan stands. Calmly he ruled: "Tardieu was replying to calumnies of which he had been made the object. The vehement ardor with which he sought to defend himself led him to exceed the limits within which, in my opinion, he should have remained. . . . But I never thought ... he was acting with the premeditated purpose of putting in danger my truce and the appeasement Ministry...
...general record of his stewardship, which is undeniably good. He left up in the air the specific failure of his Cabinet to clear up the Stavisky scandal which is still in the dawdling hands of its Parliamentary Committee. Convinced that le peuple blame chiefly the Committee and not himself, Gastounet left the microphone to begin his summer vacation. Next evening as he was about to catch the sleeping car for his wife's estate near Toulouse the Stavisky scandal blew up in Committee and excited Cabinet Ministers came tearing to the station...
That sent the statesmen scampering to stop Premier Gaston Doumergue before he could leave Paris for his vacation. "M. le President!" they panted at Gastounet, "your Cabinet is threatened. You must...
...engine whistled Gastounet made a lightning decision. "Tell the boys to be good!" he snapped. "This quarrel must be limited to the men involved, not their parties or the Government. I shall leave now on my vacation and should anyone act rashly they must bear the blame. Au revoir, Messieurs!" and the train chuffed off with Gastounet...
...Britain and Italy for the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July 23). When Premier Doumergue took office France was embroiled in bitter tariff and quota disputes with Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland. Now all of these have been ironed out by trade treaties. Only in arming France has Gastounet been extravagant. He has forced through supplemental appropriations of over three billion francs to complete the French system of superfrontier defenses by 1940. But in this present year he has saved over four billion francs by discharging 85,000 superfluous Government employes, slashing Government salaries and veterans' pensions, and paring...